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Philip Ortelli and Sandar Tun Tun at KRONE COURONNE

Duo Show «Casting Shades at New Moon», June 5 until July 10, 2021

Artists

Philip Ortelli, Sandar Tun Tun

Institution

Krone Couronne

Location

Biel/Bienne

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Press release (PDF)

Website

kronecouronne.ch

Exhibition View Philip Ortelli and Sandar Tun Tun Duo Show «Casting Shades at New Moon; view on Philip Ortelli, Mad Mother, 2019» at KRONE COURONNE, Biel, 2021 / Photo: James Bantone / Courtesy: artists and KRONE COURONNE

Exhibition Overview

Entering KRONE COURONNE, we find ourselves in the foyer, a room of convergence, an in-between. Translucid curtains redefine the architecture, paving the way to the spaces. In the background, we hear sounds, a vibration, a voice. We see lights, reflections, beams of color. An invitation to an otherworldly universe.

Casting Shades at New Moon

"Casting Shades at New Moon" stemmed from the multiple allegories around the moon as a silent and discrete observer, and the social and geological phenomena of its cycles. Featuring new works by artists Philip Ortelli and Sandar Tun Tun, who have been sharing research and nurturing reflections for several months, the exhibition navigates between the sensory investigation of bodies in space and the phenomenological experience of sound, shape, and color. From a visual and sound installation to wax sculptures, the works oscillate between fabulation, poetry, and phantasmagorical worlds.

Artistic Exploration

In her manifesto Glitch Feminism (2020), Legacy Russell suggests that bodies need to break away from their binary confinement and take on a vast and infinite dimension ('cosmic bodies'). "Casting Shades at New Moon" is interested in unveiling the ‘multiple’ bodies, and to do so through the visitors’ senses, which might be tickled, amplified, or twisted. From this cosmic reading of the world, the moon becomes the starting point of the exhibition.

Artists' Works

The series of 8 beeswax sculptures by Philip Ortelli pixelate the wall made of lapis lazuli pigments, a deep blue known to absorb light and intensify our perception of the color. Following the moon’s cycle, the works reveal fragments of bodies, objects, symbols, emotions, reminiscent of surrealist marks, where the juxtaposition of images from distant realities stimulate imagination and the unconscious mind. Synthia by Sandar Tun Tun is a sonic and immersive installation in a presence-sensitive environment. Lights and speakers are laid out to invite the public into an ear-oriented wander. In the middle, a webcam captures spatial information that the artist interprets as potential corporealities. With Synthia, Tun Tun orchestrates a poetic and complex sonic language made out of a codified system based on diverted algorithmic recognition.

Artists' Background

Philip Ortelli (1991, born in Bern, lives and works in Zurich) works mainly with sculpture and video, oscillating between concept and intuition. Sandar Tun Tun (1989, lives and works in Geneva and Marseille) is an artist and composer working with time-based media. Her installations, performances, compositions, and collective writing examine power relations, the space of appearance/disappearance, and contemporary conditions of coexistence.

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Exhibition View Philip Ortelli and Sandar Tun Tun Duo Show «Casting Shades at New Moon; view on Philip Ortelli, Miss Lure, 2021» at KRONE COURONNE, Biel, 2021 / Photo: James Bantone / Courtesy: artists and KRONE COURONNE Biel

Exhibition View Philip Ortelli and Sandar Tun Tun Duo Show «Casting Shades at New Moon» at KRONE COURONNE, Biel, 2021 / Photo: James Bantone / Courtesy: artists and KRONE COURONNE Biel

Exhibition View Philip Ortelli and Sandar Tun Tun Duo Show «Casting Shades at New Moon; view on Philip Ortelli, Every tool is a weapon, 2021; I tought my life would get easier, indeed, 2021» at KRONE COURONNE, Biel, 2021 / Photo: James Bantone / Courtesy: artists and KRONE COURONNE Biel

Exhibition View Philip Ortelli and Sandar Tun Tun Duo Show «Casting Shades at New Moon; view on Philip Ortelli, Tie'em to a fence post (Rights for gays, oh yeah), 2021» at KRONE COURONNE, Biel, 2021 / Photo: James Bantone / Courtesy: artists and KRONE COURONNE Biel

Exhibition View Philip Ortelli and Sandar Tun Tun Duo Show «Casting Shades at New Moon; view on Philip Ortelli, Bad Weather and Class Struggle, Vertical 4k-video, silent animation with quote by Richard Siken, 2021» at KRONE COURONNE, Biel, 2021 / Photo: James Bantone / Courtesy: artists and KRONE COURONNE Biel

Exhibition View Philip Ortelli and Sandar Tun Tun Duo Show «Casting Shades at New Moon; view on Sandar Tun Tun, Synthia, 2021, Sound installation» at KRONE COURONNE, Biel, 2021 / Photo: James Bantone / Courtesy: artists and KRONE COURONNE Biel

Exhibition View Philip Ortelli and Sandar Tun Tun Duo Show «Casting Shades at New Moon» at KRONE COURONNE, Biel, 2021 / Photo: James Bantone / Courtesy: artists and KRONE COURONNE Biel