Exhibitions, Italy, Venezia, 17 May 2018
(...) Head, neck, hair, ears, drop and tympan of the ears,
Eyes, eye-fringes, iris of the eye, eyebrows, and the waking or sleeping of the lids,
Mouth, tongue, lips, teeth, roof of the mouth, jaws, and the jaw-hinges,
Nose, nostrils of the nose, and the partition,
Cheeks, temples, forehead, chin, throat, back of the neck, neck-slue,
Strong shoulders, manly beard, scapula, hind-shoulders, and the ample side-round of the chest,
Upper-arm, armpit, elbow-socket, lower-arm, arm-sinews, arm-bones,
Wrist and wrist-joints, hand, palm, knuckles, thumb, forefinger, finger-joints, finger-nails,
Broad breast-front, curling hair of the breast, breast-bone, breast-side,
Ribs, belly, backbone, joints of the backbone,
Hips, hip-sockets, hip-strength, inward and outward round, man-balls, man-root,
Strong set of thighs, well carrying the trunk above,
Leg fibres, knee, knee-pain, upper-leg,under-leg,
Ankles, instep, foot-ball, toes, toe-joints,the heel;
All attitudes, all the shapeliness, all the belongings of my or your body or of any one’s body, male or female, (...).
Walt Whitman’s poem “I sing the body electric” from 1855 celebrates the human body as a primary agent through which we experience the world; soul and body are seen as equals. This show plays with these themes and applies them to the domestic. The House electric explores two fundamental elements: neon light and furniture.
Each exhibit shares aspects of the poems sensuality, equality and interconnectedness. The final part of the poem elaborates on this with a lengthy list of body parts, some obvious ones, some obscure, internal or tiny. Verbs are stripped away, leaving objects to function as the main or in some cases only part in what becomes a direct and exposed structure.
Similarly, elements making up Richard Wheater’s neon installations give equal importance to its parts; the housing of the transformer to celebrate the lights source, ‘umbilical’ electric wire encased in transparent glass. The light, a central concern of M-L-XL designs are to balance the constituent parts of a piece of furniture; legs, bends, joints, seat, surfaces, component colours, feet... nothing is hidden, a simple balance of all the necessary parts. Jochen Holz’s neon light installation and glass objects share an organic, bodily language, limb
like flowing forms intestinal bulges, elbows knuckles and tubes, fluffy, cloud coloured light. The House electric: a collective approach in celebrating subtle variants in everyday familiar functionality. What we take for granted is to be unveiled in a new light!
Partner
Ditta Braggio di Vicenza,
Azienda Vinicola Drusian.
Marketing advisor Kumaux
The House Electric
17.5 — 11.08.2018 Preview: 17.5. 2018 at 6 pm A plus A Gallery
Works by
Jochen Holz, M–L–XL and Richard Wheater
Contacts
A plus A gallery
San Marco 3073, Venezia 30124
www.aplusa.it,
info@aplusa.it
Phone +39 041 2770466
Eyes, eye-fringes, iris of the eye, eyebrows, and the waking or sleeping of the lids,
Mouth, tongue, lips, teeth, roof of the mouth, jaws, and the jaw-hinges,
Nose, nostrils of the nose, and the partition,
Cheeks, temples, forehead, chin, throat, back of the neck, neck-slue,
Strong shoulders, manly beard, scapula, hind-shoulders, and the ample side-round of the chest,
Upper-arm, armpit, elbow-socket, lower-arm, arm-sinews, arm-bones,
Wrist and wrist-joints, hand, palm, knuckles, thumb, forefinger, finger-joints, finger-nails,
Broad breast-front, curling hair of the breast, breast-bone, breast-side,
Ribs, belly, backbone, joints of the backbone,
Hips, hip-sockets, hip-strength, inward and outward round, man-balls, man-root,
Strong set of thighs, well carrying the trunk above,
Leg fibres, knee, knee-pain, upper-leg,under-leg,
Ankles, instep, foot-ball, toes, toe-joints,the heel;
All attitudes, all the shapeliness, all the belongings of my or your body or of any one’s body, male or female, (...).
Walt Whitman’s poem “I sing the body electric” from 1855 celebrates the human body as a primary agent through which we experience the world; soul and body are seen as equals. This show plays with these themes and applies them to the domestic. The House electric explores two fundamental elements: neon light and furniture.
Each exhibit shares aspects of the poems sensuality, equality and interconnectedness. The final part of the poem elaborates on this with a lengthy list of body parts, some obvious ones, some obscure, internal or tiny. Verbs are stripped away, leaving objects to function as the main or in some cases only part in what becomes a direct and exposed structure.
Similarly, elements making up Richard Wheater’s neon installations give equal importance to its parts; the housing of the transformer to celebrate the lights source, ‘umbilical’ electric wire encased in transparent glass. The light, a central concern of M-L-XL designs are to balance the constituent parts of a piece of furniture; legs, bends, joints, seat, surfaces, component colours, feet... nothing is hidden, a simple balance of all the necessary parts. Jochen Holz’s neon light installation and glass objects share an organic, bodily language, limb
like flowing forms intestinal bulges, elbows knuckles and tubes, fluffy, cloud coloured light. The House electric: a collective approach in celebrating subtle variants in everyday familiar functionality. What we take for granted is to be unveiled in a new light!
Partner
Ditta Braggio di Vicenza,
Azienda Vinicola Drusian.
Marketing advisor Kumaux
The House Electric
17.5 — 11.08.2018 Preview: 17.5. 2018 at 6 pm A plus A Gallery
Works by
Jochen Holz, M–L–XL and Richard Wheater
Contacts
A plus A gallery
San Marco 3073, Venezia 30124
www.aplusa.it,
info@aplusa.it
Phone +39 041 2770466
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