Memo-2608

Type:

Bach Painting

Title:

Goldberg Variations Series, after Bach, Variations no. 4

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Artist: James Peel
Year: 2005

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About the artist:
James Peel is a graduate of the Royal College of Art. He is a multimedia conceptual artist who has exhibited at Tate Liverpool and the Henry Moore Institute and is currently a resident of the Emmanuel Hoffman Foundation in Basel, where he is working on a series of projects that explore the nature of rainbows and the music of waterfalls in relation to the forgotten universal language of Solresol, invented by Jean François Sudre in the mid-19^th century.
"Each painting starts at the top left of the canvas and works eight bars across, four times, to complete a total of 32 bars. The paintings represent scores from Bach's Goldberg Variations. I chose the Variations because they were written in the early 18^th century, and so it is possible that they were played on Castel's ocular harpsichord. Their rich mathematical and harmonic structures would have particularly suited the challenges of such an instrument" (James Peel).

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Source/Links: Digital Cultures: December 2007 | Cabinet Magaziner
Contributor: Teddy Kaufman (January 2008)