Visual Music Exhibition

	Visual Music Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, CA February 13-May 23, 2005 Exhibition website Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Washington, DC June 23-September 11, 2005 Exhibition website Visual Music surveys the rich and resonant relationship between abstraction, color, and sound over the past century. Follow its fascinating evolution from abstract painting through experimental film, and contemporary installation art in this major exhibition that brings together an international range of works by Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Oskar Fischinger, Jennifer Steinkamp, and others. Rather than following a traditional progression of movements and styles, this exhibition presents successive explorations of the idea of synaesthesia. Artists from all over the world are inspired by the concept of synaesthesia, the experience of one sense evoking another, in this case exploring the union of the aural and visual senses. Visual Music explores this concept’s remarkable cross-pollination across time and medium and reveals how the multimedia installations produced today realize ambitions expressed by paintings made almost 100 years ago. Over 80 works, including important examples never before seen in the U.S., by over 40 internationally recognized artists of abstract painting, experimental cinema, and contemporary installation are featured.
	Links: Hirshhorn Press Release New York Times Review Washington Post Review LA Weekly Review Cavalier Daily Review StudioTalk Review (MOCA) Russian Art Gazzette Review
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