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S'està carregant… For Whom the Bell Tolls: Samson Young’s Art Journey (2016)de Samson Young (Artist), BMW Group Munich (Editor), András Szántó (Editor)
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Journeys and encounters with other countries and people play a decisive role in the creative process of many artists. Last year we published The Sense of Movement: When Artists Travel, the first volume commemorating the BMW Art Journey-a joint initiative by BMW and Art Basel that supports artists with travel grants. That inaugural compendium featured iconic artists' journeys through art history. The second volume in the series memorializes the first journey undertaken by a recipient of this unique award. Hong Kong-based artist and composer Samson Young traced the sounds and the complex histories of bells in a two-months-long journey that took him to eleven countries on five continents. The artist's compositions, images, and texts give expression to the relationships of tensions between war and peace, solidarity and strife, and of the political dimension of sound. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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While the idea of visiting storied bells across the continents seems like an intriguing prospect in line with the concept of the BMW Art Journey project, I never got a sense of "journey" or adventure from Young's travels. Each stop is unto itself, with no sense of movement from place to place. The text and descriptions are scant, a large font filling the void. The book's foreword touts Young's personality, his exuberance, and sense of humor, but that rarely is evidenced in his writing.
But the crux of this book is of course the resulting art itself, and that is a bit of a disappointment. Young notes that the bells inspired him to compose a musical piece, but that seemed to be a work-in-progress, and therefore not provided via the aforementioned app. The art consists of the Landschaft Series (watercolor, ink, crayon, stamp on paper), created on the road, representing the sound of the bells. The cover art representing the Mingun bell in Myanmar is the most "polished" and attractive; the others included in the book are decidedly cruder, far less pleasing to this eye. The book is also illustrated with some historical photos, and some taken by the author which are largely documentary, and only occasionally artistic in nature. ( )