Pieterjan Ginckels
NAK exhibition
January 13th – March 2nd 2008
Opening: January 12th, 8 pm
Artist talk: January 12th, 7 pm
Passstrasse 29 52070 Aachen (Germany)
www.neueraachenerkunstverein.de
| Pieterjan Ginckels (* 1982 in Tienen, Belgium) lives and works in Brussels. The NAK invited him to his first large solo exhibition, in order to present his artistic work to a larger public. Pieterjan Ginckels, who is active also under the alias nononoise as an experimental DJ and music producer, works in very different media, with design, sculpture, video, performance and music. The daily life of a modern, technology affine generation which is shaped by popular culture is the starting point of his work. Within this range Pieterjan Ginckels is particularly interested in two aspects: On the one hand in the structures and function modes which define the cultural exchange in popular subcultures and which Ginckels regards as a consistent refusal of commercial usefulness and on the other hand in the nostalgically motivated observation of technical media, whose radical scientific-functional logic provokes Ginckels to intervene within the possibilities of art and to set these in a new relation to the human being. Particularly for the exhibition at NAK Pieterjan Ginckels conceived two space-filling installations, which show different facets of his multiform work. In the lower showroom the work “Powerstation” will be presented. “Powerstation” is a room-in-room construction which is designed from simple wood slats and cardboard box and which supplies the showroom of the NAK in a not comprehensible way with electricity. Inside hollow, the installation raises questions about the origin of the immaterial energy flows, which are never visible, but from undeniable influence on our life. With the work “1000 Beats/1 Beat” Ginckels combines in the upper showroom visual and aural experiencing in the desire to connect the world of the art with that of popular music. He takes up its organization, its function modes and the connecting effect, which the preference for the same music style has. For 1000 Beats/1Beat a number of turntables is needed, which are lent by people, who feel connected to NAK and the artist. Several turntables are attached to a common mixer and common loudspeakers. On each record player one Beat is played, which the internationally successful DJ Cristian Vogel sketched as a continuous groove and whose Cover was sketched by the Norwegian designers group Grandpeople. While Pieterjan Ginckels took the record as a "fan" to cause a co-operation with his idols, the record became a kind of sculpture. As the record is played on several players and the individual sound signals result in an ensemble rhythm, this process can be understood also as social plastic, which at the same time represents the networks of NAK as installation and sound. By the borrowing givers that may all take one "Beat" home this sound distributes itself on the whole world. The exhibition with Pieterjan Ginckels presents the most current tendencies of the contemporary art to a broader public, which are based on interaction and connections between popular culture and visual arts. |
http://www.pieterjanginckels.be
http://www.blaworld.com
