FLORIAN HECKER. Hallucination, Perspective, Synthesis
Florian Hecker, FAVN Alte Oper Frankfurt, Photo: © Alte Oper Frankfurt, Norbert Miguletz, 2016, Copyright the artist, Courtesy Sadie Coles HQ, London
Florian Hecker is an artist, who uses synthetic sounds and the listener’s auditory process to create acoustic spaces of experience. His computer-generated compositions dramatize psychoacoustics as well as objective-physical stimuli and their individual, psychic and physical impacts. Complex multi-channel installations unfold a sculptural presence that shakes the idea of a coherent, continuous world of identifiable coordinates and points of reference.
For "Hallucination, Perspective, Synthesis", the exhibition space of Kunsthalle Wien transforms into a performative, resonating space and stage for sound events that withdraw from linguistic description and categorization. Hecker’s works rather produce a form of immateriality, the perception of which is a subjective process of experience. The examination of compositional post-war Modernity and audiology meets with considerations of Conceptual Art and Minimalism on viewer involvement and subjectivization of the objective given: on perspective and situation.
Curator: Vanessa Joan Müller