Florian Hecker / John McCracken

Following the 2015 exhibition "Florian Hecker/John McCracken" at K nstlerhaus, Halle f r Kunst & Medien Graz, this publication probes the experimental capacity of the white-cube space of the gallery. For the exhibition, two complementary yet autonomous artists were brought into dialogue with each other: German artist and computer composer Florian Hecker, and the late American sculptor John McCracken.

The fiberglass-coated, monochrome "planks" by McCracken spanned the floor and the walls of the building, evoking a juncture between painting and sculpture, while Hecker's computer-generated sound pieces dramatized both space and time. By combining the work of the two artists, a framework was created in which an aesthetic experience occurred between the shifting boundaries and intersections of sculpture and sound as they affected each other within a space consisting of geometric and architectural formations as well as temporal and subjective formations. At the same time, the viewer/listener became more sensitized to the conditions, qualities, and degrees of intensity between the physical and the ephemeral.

The publication includes a curatorial introduction by Christian Egger, and a comprehensive essay by the author and curator of the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Jo o Ribas. The cover has been designed by Florian Hecker using an objectness measure algorithm.

Copublished with K nstlerhaus, Halle f r Kunst & Medien Graz

Contributors
Christian Egger and Jo o Ribas

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3956792157
• ISBN13: 9783956792151
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Sternberg Press
• Length: 44 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher