Cathryn Boch & Alessandro Bosetti
Hundred and one
Fishway Marais Pine at Marais Poitevin Natural Park - Marans - France
lat.: 46.309462, long.: -0.992865
About the work
Once in the middle of each week a law of nature compels us to move to and fro with a rhythmic motion of more than usual violence which continues for the time you would take to count a hundred and one. In the midst of this choral dance, at the fifty fiirst pulsation, the hinabitants of the Universe pause in full career, and each individual sends forth his richest, fullest, sweetest strain. It is in this decisive moment that all our marriages are made. So exquisite is the adaptation of Bass to Treble or Tenor to Contralto, that often times the Loved Ones, thought twenty thousand leagues away, recognize at once the responsive note of thir destine Lover; and , penetrating the paltry obstacles of distance, Love Unites the three. The marriage in that instant consummated results in a threefold Male and Female offspring.
(Edwin Abbott - Flatland)
About the artist
Cathryn Boch (1968, Strasbourg, France) is represented by Galerie Papillon since 2013. Graduate of the Arts décoratifs school, Strasbourg in 1996, she has done several residencies abroad, in Lisbon (1999-2001), Vilnius (2006), and in Poland (2009).
Her works have been purchased by major public collections, such as the FRAC Picardie and PACA, the MAMCO in Geneva, the Fond National d’Art Contemporain and the Musée National d'Art Moderne.
Her work is particularly well represented in the exhibitions of major private collections such as Antoine de Galbert’s Le Mur at the Maison Rouge or the Florence and Daniel Guerlain Donation at the Centre Pompidou She is the winner of PRIX Drawing Now 2014. In 2015 the FRAC PACA invited Cathryn Boch for a solo show at the Plateau experimental. In October 2016 she had have her second solo exhibition at Galerie Papillon.
Her practise is predominantly focused on drawing. Ephemeral figures and maps blend into large constellations. However, paper is not only support, it becomes source and medium of her work. She physically works the paper; her technique includes sanding, scraping, oiling, piercing, stitching and reassembling. The final "drawing" reveals the physical struggle with the paper. The artist invades the material while sewing; developing the surface in its depth. The paper finally turns into volume.
Alessandro Bosetti (Milano, Italy, 1973) is a composer, performer and sound artist whose works delve on musicality of spoken language, utilizing misunderstandings, translations and interviews as compositional tools. His works for voice and electronics blur the line between electro acoustic composition, aural writing and performance.
One of the most innovative radio artists of his generation he created a vast body of work of hybrid, award winning, text-sound and radio compositions for the main Radio's and Electro Acoustic Music studios in Europe as WDR, Deutschland Radio Kultur, Radio France, ABC Australia, ORF, GRM/Presences Electroniques.
Current projects include the abstract polyphony dispositive Plane/Talea, The Notebooks based on Leos Janacek speech melodies archives, the monophonic extravaganzas Mini and Maxigolf with Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Trophies a powerful speech-loop trio with drummer Tony Buck and fretless guitarist Kenta Naga and Mask Mirror an instrument and software that reorganizes speech for musical purposes enacting a form of electronic ventriloquism.
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