ALEXANDER JOHANNES

Singing Sculpture

A Silent Instrument

Singing Sculpture
2020

Sculpture
brass tube, medium-density fibreboard (MDF)
dimensions: 200cm x 100cm x 300cm

The singing sculpture is inspired by shapes observed on the beach, during my project ‘Going to the Beach as Artistic Research Practice’ (2019). At the sea, trees are shaped over time, bending with sweeping gestures, constantly moved by the ocean winds. The sculpture’s aesthetics and formal expression suggests musicality and produces expectations for certain sound qualities or tonal characteristics. Yet, the singing sculpture is a silent instrument, playing with the interdisciplinary, the synesthetic, and the translations from one medium into another. Eventually, the gently swinging sculpture is moving in the air, and isn’t this what sound is, moving air?

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Calendar

December 2025

Saturday December 13 – Saturday December 20

Opening Hours 'shaping transition'
Frappant
Zeiseweg 9, 22765 Hamburg, Germany

“shaping transition” presents artistic perspectives on transitions. Drawings, installations, objects, and sound make it possible to experience the “in-between.” A supporting program expands the exhibition with performances and discussions about thresholds and processes of transformation.

Sat, Dec 13, 2:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Sun, Dec 14, 2:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Wed, Dec 17, 4:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Thu, Dec 18, 4:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Fri, Dec 19, 4:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Sat, Dec 20, 2:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.

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Sunday December 21

2:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Finissage 'shaping transition'
Frappant
Zeiseweg 9, 22765 Hamburg, Germany

2:00 p.m. Exhibition open
3:00–4:00 p.m. Elena Greta Falcini & Dr. Felicitas Holzer (researcher, Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine, University of Zurich), conversation with the artists / Moderator: Jenni Schurr (SENDER)
7:00 p.m. End

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