Make sure you catch the private view of Deep and Meaningful by BFA Ruskin graduate Oliver Beer this Thursday. Fusing film, photography, music and performance – Beer has an encompassing practice and excitingly original and articulate means of expression.
Since his selection as winner of Saatchi’s ’4 New Sensations’ 2009 exhibition, Beer has been living it up in Paris but has come back to the UK with an almighty and strikingly beautiful new body of work as part of his ongoing ‘Resonance Project.’ Quick breakdown for you: ‘The Resonance Project’ consists of films, sound pieces and performances that use the human voice to stimulate architectural spaces to reverberate at their resonant frequencies, transforming them into vast architectural instruments. Every room, every space, has its own particular frequency, ie. a room can approximate the synthy song of a finger tracing a wine glass rim.
This series has led Beer to work in extraordinary architectural and social contexts, from the transparent skyline-tunnels of the Pompidou Centre to the austerity of a Renaissance monastery; and most recently a Victorian sewer network in Brighton resulting in Deep and Meaningful. For which Beer, in Pied Piper style, led a group of chanting choristers beneath the sunny seaside town echoing their way through the ancient maze of tunnels. The result, both audio and visual, is extraordinary. Uber-collector Anita Zabludowicz has been prowling after him amongst others. See and listen for yourself what Oliver Beer is all about.
Location: Upstairs Galleries at 20 Hoxton Square
Date: 1st July
Time: 7.00 pm – 9.00 pm
Exhibition will last until 24th July
For more information check out www.murmurart.com
