Sound Art? - Fundación BBVA

EXHIBITION Sound Art?

With works by Marcel Duchamp, Sonia Delaunay, Joseph Beuys, Alvin Lucier, Bridget Riley, Laurie Anderson, Ryoji Ikeda, Rolf Julius, Tres and Joan Miró

26

OCT

2019

23

FEB

2020

DATE AND TIME 26/10/2019 to 23/02/2020

VENUE Fundació Joan Miró, Parc de Montjuïc 08038 Barcelona

OPENING TIMES TICKETS

From the mid-1990s onwards countless exhibitions have focused on sound art. But is there really such a thing as sound art? In the year 2000, musician and experimental artist Max Neuhaus asked himself whether this description made any real sense, and since then various artists and critics have reflected on diverse facets of what we might call the “sonorization of the art object.”
Fundació Joan Miró presents Sound Art?, fully sponsored by the BBVA Foundation; a question in the form of an exhibition which reassesses the notion of sound in art and considers the possibility of this aesthetic category.

Header image: © John Baldessari, Beethoven’s Trumpet (With Ear) Opus 133, 2007. Courtesy of the artist, Marian Goodman Gallery and Sprueth Magers

CURATOR Arnau Horta

EXHIBITION

Through paintings, drawings, graphic music scores and collages, as well as diverse types of objects, sculptures and sound installations, the show explores this process of sonorization – from the late 19th century to the present day – to offer a critical questioning of the “sound art” category. In its five sections, the exhibition traces the imprint of sound in the visual arts and examines how the sonorization process developed progressively, first as an allusion to sound and later as the progagation of sound into the art object.