Trained as a musician and composer, French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot creates works by

Flight of Music

drawing on the rhythms of daily life to produce sound in unexpected ways. His installation for The Curve will take the form of awalk-though aviary for a flock of zebra finches, furnished with electric guitars and other instruments and objects. As the birds go about their routine activities, perching on or feeding from the various pieces of equipment, they create a captivating, live soundscape.

Where?

Barbican Centre
Silk Street London
EC2Y 8DS

27 February 2010 – 23 May 2010

How Much?

Free admission
Open daily 11am-8pm
Open late every Thu until 10pm

About the artist

A native of Nice, Céleste Boursier-Mougenot was born in 1961. He lives and works in Sète, France. His work has been exhibited in venues such as the capcMusée, Bordeaux, France (1997), ICC – InterCommunication Center, Tokyo (2000), the Herzliya Museum of Art, Israel (2001), the “Printemps de Septembre” in Toulouse, France (2004) and the Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, Florida (2005). In 2006, Boursier-Mougenot presented états seconds a one-person exhibition at the FRAC Champagne-Ardennes in Reims, France. His work is in major public and private collections around the world, including Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, the Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA, the Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, and several Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain (FRACs) in France. His monograph, états seconds, was published by Analogues in Arles, France in 2008 and is available from the gallery.

More Info

http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=9713

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