TYPOSPHÄRE
Current Positions of script / imagery
03. August - 09. September 2012
Venue : Galerie im Turm, Frankfurter Tor 1, 10243 Berlin
Opening : Thursday, 02. August, 19.00
Greeting by Mr. Dr. jur. Wu-Lien Wei, Representative, Taipei Office in Germany
Acordion - Music by Chieh-Ting Hsieh
Closing : Sunday, 09. September, 17.00
Acordion - Music by Chieh-Ting Hsieh
Artists :
Alexander Behn (DE), Chieh-Ting Hsieh (TW), Julienne Jattiot (FR), Anne Mundo (DE),
Sebastian Russek (DE), Bo-Cheng Shen (TW), tamtamART GROUP (TW), Yung-shan Tsou (TW)
Dear friends,
tamtamART GROUP is pleased to be a part of the exhibition : TYPOSPHÄRE - Current Positions
of script / imagery, and has the pleasure to invite you to join us. Opening on Thursday, 02.
August at 7pm, and the exhibition will be on view until 09. September.
This exhibition is dealing with the script forms of Chinese and Latin language that are written and
/ or printed. Typosphere (Typosphäre) aims to activate the dialogue between calligraphy and
typography as well as drawing and print. It also presents a contemporary spectrum of script-/
imagery. This exhibition brings together eight artists from three different countries.
In this exhibition, the concept of script-/ imagery involves all senses: Anne Mundo’s abstract
drawings reveal her apprehension of the nuances between the calligrafic and graphic
expressions. Alexander Behn presents his book- and letter- objects to set up his structural
argument on the physical and haptic qualities of letters. Bo-cheng Shen demonstrates the
cross-boundary effects of visual, audio and haptic stimuli as a whole in his Braille – sound -
installation. The tamtamART GROUP works on the interconnection between language and voice
as well as script and imagery in a light-sound-installation. Chieh-Ting Hsieh translates the
Chinese notation into his music. Furthermore, the typo-poetry of Julienne Jattiot, the calligraphic
comics of Sebastian Russek and the reading installation of Yung-shan Tsou are also going to be
presented in this exhibition.
This exhibition is sponsored by the Centre Culturel de Taïwan in Paris, Represented by Chih-Cheng Chen
Galerie im Turm is a establishment of the district office Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg
More info : www.galerie-im-turm.net / www.ccacctp.org /
more info : www.tamtamart.de
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Taiwanese artists to stage exhibition in Berlin
2012/07/26 17:26:50
Berlin, July 25 (CNA) A group of artists from Taiwan, Germany and France are mounting a joint exhibition at the Galerie im Turm in Berlin that will kick off Aug. 3 and run through Sept. 9, the organizers said Wednesday.
The exhibition, titled "Typosphere: Current Positions of Script/Imagery," brings together contemporary artists experimenting with themes such as typography, which is the art and technique of arranging type, and the transformation of written scripts into visual or sound effects.
Taiwan-based artist Shen Bo-cheng uses a self-made Braille-audio device to invoke sensory interaction, while Tsou Yung-shan's reading device blurs the boundaries between reading text and viewing a painting.
Five Taiwanese expatriates from the Berlin-based tamtamART Group -- Hung Yun-ting, Tsou I-chen, Fu Ya-wen, Huang Hsuan and Chen Ying-chih -- explore the relationships between linguistics/languages and phonemes/graphemes with interactive light and sound installations.
Taiwan-born musician Hsieh Chieh-ting, meanwhile, will integrate Nanguan, an ancient Chinese classical music style, into his own modern accordion performance on the opening and closing nights of the exhibition.
Other artists who will be participating in the exhibition include German artists Anne Mundo, Alexander Behn and Sebastian Russek, aswell as French artist Julienne Jattiot, according to a posting on thetamtamART Group website.
"Berlin's lively art scene has become an important hub for the cultural and artistic communities in Western, Central and Eastern Europe," said Chen Chih-cheng, director of the Taiwan Culture Center in Paris under Taiwan's Ministry of Culture, one of the main organizers of the event.
"This is why the Taiwan Culture Center intends to promote Taiwanese culture to the European Union by collaborating with major art groups and organizers in Berlin," Chen added.
The other organizers of the exhibition are the Galerie im Turm in Berlin and Berlin's Cultural Office of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, in collaboration with the tamtamART Group and the Berlin-Weissensee School of Art's print workshop.
(By Lillian Lin and Liu Shih-chun)
