Florian Hecker/John McCracken

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Two artists, two generations, two mediums: German artist and sound artist/computer composer Florian Hecker (b. 1975) and American Light Space artist John McCracken (1934-2011) together probe the experimental capacity of the white cube gallery space. Fiberglass-coated, monochrome 'planks' by McCracken spanning the floor and the walls of the building evoke a juncture between painting and sculpture, while Hecker's computer-generated sound pieces, piped into the rooms by suspended speakers, dramatize both space and time. Shifting boundaries and intersections of sculpture and sound interact with one another within the space of geometric, architectural, temporal and subjective formations. At the same time, the viewer/listener becomes more sensitized to the conditions, qualities, and degrees of intensity between the physical and the ephemeral. The small illustrated exhibition catalog includes installation shots, curatorial introduction by Christian Egger and comprehensive essay by curator João Ribas. The cover by Florian Hecker uses an 'objectness measure algorithm'