A fine art exhibition inspired by an experiment with sound

An exhibition at Prague City Gallery's Stone Bell House presents a cross-section of the history of the representation of sound as an abstract phenomenon from the avant-garde to the present day. It includes a wide range of forms from abstract paintings and unconventional scores, to resonating objects, to multimedia projections and interactive installations. In historical and contemporary works, sound takes on color and shape, becomes an object, a spatial composition or a physical action, and also shows how diverse assumptions determine its visual form.

Bringing the majority of visual – or at least visually communicative – works into relation with the aesthetics of acoustically functional elements explores the possibilities of the effect of a persistent work as a source of imagined sound. The installation's acoustic design, or inspired by real acoustic elements, enabled coexistence with exhibits that emit real sound. The plasticity of the substrate moves the surface of drawings and graphics, traditionally attached to the wall, into space. It strengthens the ability to perceive the sound potential of the color, shape, lines of the work.

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  w: Jitka Hlaváčková (curator)
  Jaroslav Rous (construction)
  photo: Adéla Leinweberová and Roman Neruda