The work of the Canadian artist Herman Kolgen will be exhibited at the Fundacion Telefonica in Lima from April 7th till July 30th.
“Territorios Expandidos” presents six artworks where the sound and the image are revealed by complex technological interrelations. A true audio-kinetic sculptor, Kolgen creates works of an almost disconcerting mathematical aesthetic finesse, using digital data.
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The work of the Canadian artist Herman Kolgen will be exhibited at the Fundacion Telefonica in Lima from April 7th till July 30th.
“Territorios Expandidos” presents six artworks where complex technological interrelations reveal the sound and the image. A real audio-kinetic sculptor, Kolgen creates works of an almost disconcerting mathematical aesthetic finesse, using digital data.
For many years Herman Kolgen, an internationally renowned Canadian artist, explores digital technologies through the relationships of territory and power that occur within them. Kolgen is interested in the territory not only as outer physical space but also as a place of human interiority, with its affections and its intangible states. The territory appears as an area of tension in which attraction and repulsion create unexpected dialogues. Like the atoms that form bodies and matter, this tension creates a fertile resistance that opens the way to the expression of the forces of life that inspire the work of the artist. The artistic process of Herman Kolgen is also characterized by a recurring concern about the impact that man has on the territory and vice-versa. His works question the scale and the impact, to varying degrees, of the gestures and actions we all make in our everyday life. In the form of generative video installations, photographs or audiovisual performances, his technologically sophisticated and visually sensitive works speak of how digital tools affect our relationship with the world and the way we interpret the environment. If we are ontologically linked to the universe in a way that we do not understand by its essence, there is no doubt that in our daily lives we are increasingly aware that digital acts as an interface between reality and the intentions we project in it.
Nathalie Bachand, curator of the exhibition
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Fundacion Telefonica
Av. Arequipa 1155, Lima (Perou)
Open from Tuesday to Saturday 10AM-8PM
and on Sundays 12PM-7PM
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