Zimoun “Volume” :: February 2 – March 10, 2012 :: Opening: February 2; 6:00 – 8:30 pm :: bitforms gallery nyc, 529 W. 20th Street, New York, New York City.

bitforms gallery is pleased to announce Volume, the first solo exhibition in New York by Swiss artist Zimoun. On view will be an immersive, site-specific sound installation based on prepared dcmotors and cardboard boxes.

Part of a series that received its U.S. debut in a solo exhibition at the Ringling Museum of Art this Fall, the installation emphasizes the grid as a method of visual organization. Precariously balanced rows of cardboard boxes form an architectural space containing a rumbling din produced by mechanical motors humming in unison.

Pulsing rhythmically, each unit in the system reverberates with its own sense of purpose and timing. Temporal microstructures emerge and shift, made visible by collective behavior. With minimalist and low-tech means, Zimoun constructs a blank zone of play utilizing repetition and the physical pressure of vibration.

As an author, Zimoun uses scale and tools of amplification to transform our associations with commonplace industrial objects. Tuned into kinetic and acoustic detail, his obsessive displays of collected materials unlock emotional potential in otherwise banal and chaotic gestures. In his work static volume permeates a space, yielding reductive clocklike operas of the everyday.

For the duration of the show, the gallery’s project room on the 6th floor will also feature four mechanical works by the artist and a video.

“Zimoun: Sculpting Sound” (2011) at the Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL from bitforms gallery on Vimeo.

“200 prepared dc-motors, 2000 cardboard elements 70x70cm” (2011) by Zimoun + Hannes Zweifel from bitforms gallery on Vimeo.

“121 prepared dc-motors, cardboard elements 8x8cm” (2011) by Zimoun from bitforms gallery on Vimeo.