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PRESS RELEASE
Under the surface
Rolf Julius
15 April – 22 May 2010
Opening April the 15 from 7 to 9 p.m
Sponsorised by Grolsch
« The gallery Cortex Athletico dedicates a monographic exhibition to  
the German artist Rolf Julius. Under the surface
gathers a group of works which show the double approach of the artist,  
consisting in a hybride of music, sound and
sculpture.
Born in 1939 in Germany in the post-war years, Rolf Julius discovered  
the Radio Bremen programme, playing La
Monte young among others, which was an impulse to start mixing basic  
sounds it with his first photographic works in
the mid 1970’s. At the beginning of the 1980’s, he starts producing  
musical actions, especially outside, sound objects,
drawings and working with space.
Rolf Julius’ sound sculptures develop through an economy of means a  
subtle aesthetic, at the fringe of the visible and
the audible.
Concerning his work, the artist explains : « I have nothing to do with  
minimal music itself. I mean, I don’t play music.
When I use buzzers in my work for example, the music is decided by the  
materials. The result becomes minimal
music, but it is widely dependent on the system itself. I react to the  
sounds and do what it suggest to me. In any case,
my ideas about how materials determine the results are very close to  
minimal art. In fact, in minimal art there is the
idea of what the material itself means.
The materials, like a sheet of steel and a music partition are the  
same thing for me.
The reason why I love minimal music is its vacuity. Like a single tree  
on the horizon. »
Loudspeakers placed on the eyes, with a veil of music vibrating the  
eyelids surface ; this musical action is entitled
Music for the eyes, and dates back to 1982. Delicate and poetic, the  
work of Rolf Julius does not impose itself, it
requires an intense attention from the viewer/listener. You can watch  
the music ; pigments shiver, sand ripples, paper
quivers, water simmers… You have to experience the works ; move from  
one to another, encountering fragile and
fascinating landscapes of sound where the technicity, the music, the  
sound, the silences and the materials interpret
miniature electronic gardens. »
Cécile Broqua
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From April the 8th to June the 8 th 2010
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