Akseli Gallen-Kallela |
Paul Cèzanne |
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Thèo van Rysselberghe |
Sounscapes is a different kind of an exhibition experience in London´s National Gallery. There are only six art works in this exhibition, and six composers have made music or sounds for their "own" art work. Before going to the exhibition I luckily saw a fine video, where the composers opened their music and it´s connection to the painting. The art works had been situated to almost dark, sound proof rooms, and music was implemented with the highest technique. Very meditative! There was even one Finnish artist: Akseli Gallen-Kallela´s Lake Keitele. Chris Watson had recorded bird song and other sounds in situ by the side of the lake Keitele. Hans Holbein the Younger´s The Ambassadors´ and Thèo van Rysselbergh`s Coastal Scene had quite traditional sounding
backgrounds of Susan Philipsz`s violin arrangement and Jamie XX´s electronic sounds. Paul Cézanne´s Bathers and Gabriel Yared`s music made you stop, the ambience of the paintings was perfect, a woman´s hand was reaching to the sky and so did the music. The
Wilton Diptych is enchanting as a painting, a double sided picture, where the image of a lamb is repeated, and so are repeated also the patterns, angels and colours. Nico Muhly`s music (viola da gamba) was also based on repetition and was somehow hypnotic. The best was still the soundscene of footsteps, knocks and rustles and a vast building and it´s background, which Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller had been building as a repetition to Antonella da Messina´s painting of Saint Jeroma in His Study.
Wilton Diptych |
Wilton Diptych |
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