Zimoun + Hannes Zweifel : 200 prepared dc-motors, 2000 cardboard elements 70x70cm

Dimensions: 15x9x4.5m / 49.2 x 29.5 x 14.7 ft. Exhibition: Contemporary Art Museum MNAC Bucharest, Romania. Curated by Rokolectiv Bucharest. Assisted by Olle Kilström, Anca Stirbacu, Kjell Håften, Sergiu Doroftei, Mihaela Vasile, Filip Airinei, Cosmin Tapu, Dan Tian, Octavian Hrebenciuc, Petre Lungu, Vanessa Gageos and Florian Bürki. Kindly supported by Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council. hanneszweifel.ch zimoun.ch «The sound sculptures and installations of Zimoun are graceful, mechanized works of playful poetry, their structural simplicity opens like an industrial bloom to reveal a complex and intricate series of relationships, an ongoing interplay between the «artificial» and the «organic». It‘s an artistic research of simple and elegant systems to generate and study complex behaviors in sound and motion. Zimoun creates sound pieces from basic components, often using multiples of the same prepared mechanical elements to examine the creation and degeneration of patterns.» Tim Beck «It is a poetic and humorous absurdity we find in Zimoun’s work, which opens up a wide, refreshing and enriching space for discoveries, associations and a multitude of approaches.» Nina Terry «The clean, elegant sound sculptures combine visual, sonic, and spatial elements in an organically balanced entirely artwork. Using simple and well- conceived mechanical systems, Zimouns‘s work transforms and activates the space.» Jury Prix Ars Electronica 2010 «Zimoun creates complex kinetic sound sculptures by arranging industrially produced parts according to seemingly simple rules. Using motors, wires, ventilators, etc.., he creates closed systems that develop their own behavior and rules similarly to artificial creatures. Once running, they are left to themselves and go through an indeterminable process of (de)generation. These quasi autonomous creatures exist in an absolutely synthetic sphere of lifeless matter. However, within the precise, determinist systems creative categorioes suddenly reappear, such as deviation, refusal and transcience out of which complex patterns of behavior evolve.» Node10