{"id":1883,"date":"2015-01-12T14:04:39","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T13:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/?p=1883"},"modified":"2015-02-24T12:05:30","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T11:05:30","slug":"zimoun-installations-sonores-2005-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/zimoun-installations-sonores-2005-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"INSTALLATIONS SONORES, Zimoun (2005-2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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157 motors, cotton balls, cardboard boxes: 60x20x20cm (2014)<\/p>\n

Born in 1977, Zimoun is a contemporary Swiss sound artist who lives and works in Bern. Self-taught, he is mainly known for designing installations that draw as much on the fields of volume and sculpture as on that of sound art. He assembles simple, functional materials and components (cardboard, boxes, small motors), ordinary industrial objects, playing on their profusion and multiplication.<\/p>\n

L'accrochage géométrique quasi obsessionnel de<\/span> ses installations <\/span>exprime<\/span> "une tension entre les<\/span> modèles<\/span> ordonnés<\/span> du modernisme<\/span> and<\/span> les<\/span> forces<\/span> chaotiques<\/span> de la vie<\/span>" nous confie-t- il.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

En partant d'objets de <\/span> facture simple —un carton à l'intérieur duquel un<\/span> petit moteur actionne une boule de coton qui vient <\/span>doucement <\/span>cogner sur ses parois— il parvient, en les multipliant parfois à plusieurs centaines d'unités<\/span>, à doter ces objets sonores du quotidien d'une véritable vie organique où le bourdonnement<\/span> acoustique des<\/span> phénomènes naturels crépite, frétille, s'agite<\/span>, s'anime, <\/span>fourmille, jusqu'à emplir et "habiter" tout<\/span> l'espace sonore des lieux où il installe ses constructions<\/span> minimalistes<\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Zimoun mène dans ses œuvres une exploration systématique du rythme mécanique démultiplié, en perpétuel renouvellement, recréant artificiellement la complexité d'organismes vivants improbables qui confèrent une profondeur émotionnelle et une dimension poétique à des objets d'ordinaire inertes.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

His installations, which most often rest on simple mechanical devices, are not concerned solely with revealing the invisible aspect of the life of moving objects; they can just as well account for its no less imperceptible aspect, as in this installation of 2009, which presents an ordinary-looking tree stump fitted with a directional microphone, which betrays and amplifies the destructive activity of the termites devouring it with undisguised sonic enthusiasm.<\/p>\n