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Hans Rosenström “Why is the remote always so far away” at Maria Stenfors, London


Hans Rosenström, Together, 2015. C-Print. Courtesy the artist and Maria Stenfors, London

HANS ROSENSTRÖM
WHY IS THE REMOTE ALWAYS SO FAR AWAY

11 September – 24 October 2015
Maria Stenfors, London

Text by Yasmina Reggad

With his first solo exhibition at Maria Stenfors, Finnish artist Hans Rosenström outlines themes that have punctuated his practice in the past years. The exhibition presents recent works that address the notions of liminal and transitional states and study the limits of our experience of the world from a singular perspective.

The title Why the remote is always so far away clearly points at something unattainable ahead of us and at the same time paradoxically replicates the precision of a measuring tool. Nevertheless, the very question Hans Rosenström is raising lies in the position of the body itself in relation to the remote. The body stands in the centre, in the in-betweeness surrounded by unreachable far-aways. In this exhibition, the artist investigates the multiple nature and social functions of liminal spaces. Rosenström also strives to draw and mould the contours of the inside and the outside of the body as well as reveals its faculty of resonance that gives shape to its surroundings.
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Art & Music – Search for New Synesthesia at Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo


Otomo Yoshihide Limited Ensembles, With “Without Records”, 2012. Installation view from Art & Music – Search for New Synesthesia, MOT, Japan. Courtey the artist and MOT. Photo by Norihiro Ueno

Art + Music – Search for New Synesthesia
Tokyo Art Meeting III
27 October 2012 – 3 February 2013
at Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

Artists: Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, John Cage, Manon de Boer, Florian Hecker, Ryoji Ikeda, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Udomsak Krisanamis, Carsten Nicolai, Keita Onishi, Seigen Ono + Ryuichi Sakamoto + Shiro Takatani, Otomo Yoshihide limited ensembles（Otomo Yoshihide, Yasutomo Aoyama, Sachiko M, Kanta Horio, Yuko Mohri), Christine Ödlund, Ryuichi Sakamoto + Shiro Takatani, The SINE WAVE ORCHESTRA, Toru Takemitsu, Michi Tanaka / Jiro Takamatsu, Bartholomäus Traubeck, Stephen Vitiello, Lyota Yagi. Curated by Yuko Hasegawa. General Adviser: Ryuichi Sakamoto

Music and the visual arts have shared a close relationship with each other over the course of their evolution. At the beginning of the twentieth century Wassily Kandinsky strove to create a form of comprehensive art that would arouse a variety of sensations, while Paul Klee attempted to create images through the accurate depiction of musical notation. Later, during the 1960s, John Cage and others produced experimental works that explored the rich sensual domain and widened the range of expression made possible through the crossover of the audio and the visual. [read the full article here]
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