1999
Intersection I, 1999
Sound Work reference: Exhibition, 48th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, Extant: Summer 1999. Intersection I, dimensions: 15 meters in diameter. Collection: The Estate of Max Neuhaus
1999
Image: Photo View of site Biennale Venezia 1999
Max Neuhaus, Intersection I, 1999
48th Venice Biennale, Venice
In the center, half way down the walkway that takes us to the italian Pavillion we find ourselves immersed in sound -- a work by the American artist Max Neuhaus. Neuhaus proceeds from the premise that our sense of space comes through our ears as well as eyes.
With Intersection I, this work created specifically for the Biennal, he transports us into a vast space which seems to surround us the the moment we step into the intersection of the work's two invisible diagonals of sound. Although we still see the Giardini around us, once inside, our ears bring us into a completely new territory -- carried by Neuhaus's sound.
Just as suddenly as appears, this immaterial space dissolves again as we step away from the intersection, returning usto the Giardini.
(text from the guide to the biennale)
Image: Max Neuhaus, Circumscription Drawings
Intersection I, 1999
Colored pencil on paper 50x91; 50x37 cm
Collection: The Estate Max Neuhaus
Crédit photographique : Blaise Adilon
Max Neuhaus - Site independent sound works
-The premise of my Place works until now has been using sound to transform place, but of course the inverse works as well - a place also transforms a sound. m.n.
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In 1998 Neuhaus invented the means to construct invisible highly focused sound fields which are independent of any existing physical structure – invisible blocks of sound. A listener stepping into one is suddenly immersed in sound and transported vision in tact into a new perceptual territory. When stepping out, the sound ceases as if it was never there.