The Calder Prize 2005-2015 (Installation View)

The Calder Prize 2005-2015, now on view at Pace Gallery in London, explores the influence of artist Alexander Calder in relation to the work of six contemporary artists, each of whom were awarded a prize in the former’s name.  Now through March 5, the five winners of the Calder Prize to date are featured in conversation with Calder’s own work.  The artists awarded the Calder Prize are seen to be continuing Calder’s legacy by imagining new and innovative directions for sculpture, among them Tara Donovan (2005), Žilvinas Kempinas (2007), Tomás Saraceno (2009), Rachel Harrison (2011), Daren Bader (2013), and Haroon Mirza (2015). Working in impressively divergent media, the artists are united by their common vision to push the limits of material through variations on space and time in their work, a point that unifies them with Calder’s vision.   (more…)

Haroon Mirza, Acid Reign (2012). LED tape, LED driver, speakers, Aspirin, cables, digital video on CRT monitor, copper tape. Image courtesy and copyright of the Schering Stiftung

British artist Haroon Mirza debuts –{}{}{} {}–{}{}{}{}–{}, his first solo exhibition in Germany at the Ernst Schering Stiftung as it celebrates its 10 year anniversary.  The Schering Stiftung is a foundation that supports and promotes projects that engage both contemporary art and science.  The exhibition’s title, –{}{}{} {}–{}{}{}{}–{} is a typographical interpretation of a wave form, translating sound and light into a symbolic representation. It is also the reference for Acid Reign, the new site-specific work for the Schering Stiftung gallery. Works that simultaneaously activate seeing and hearing – with the hope of creating a synesthesia between the two – has been an ideological quest for Mirza for quite some time now.  As the press release states, “[for] Mirza it is decisive ‘to understand visual and acoustic space as one sensorial mode of perception’ (Mirza, 2010).

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