Rainer Krause to Display Sonorous Art in CasaPoli on May 10 - 31

Rainer Krause (1957, Hoyerhagen, Germany) has lived in Chile since 1987 and has developed a career that tackles painting, graphics, collage, installation and performance action. Over the past ten years, he has gone deep into the world of sound. The visual style has given way to a sphere of art that is recently gaining momentum at local level. Krause is –from this spot– a flagship exponent. 

His work has been exhibited in the country and abroad, in art institutions, non-institutional places and public spaces. A curator, professor and one of the coordinators of the Sonorous Art Master at the University of Chile, he will be developing a new sonorous project at CasaPoli from May 10 to 31.

Krause begins here, where he’s planning to work with the voices of one hundred people while they count from 1 to 400, thus creating an audio montage related to identity and communication processes. The version for Coliumo includes the participation of 50 people with no ties to the spheres of art and cultural institutions, as well as the editing work of a team of collaborators, such as Mónica Bate (another outstanding media and sonorous artist), and students Nicolás Fuentes, Felipe Fierro and Sebastián Valenzuela. The local exhibition is going to be held in a place and date to be defined.   

At the same time, the artist will continue developing other sonorous projects in CasaPoli: Changing the Pronunciation of the Name (Cambiar la pronunciación del propio nombre), where he’ll record the voices of people that have an “important relationship” with him; 1 TB5 [the island], with the sound of sea waves along Latin American coasts; and .obj, on the relation between technological object and contemporary art. He’s also planning meetings with the community and local artists. 

The artist is the second guest to CasaPoli’s 2014 Residencies Program, a cultural center located in Coliumo, Tomé. Organized with the support provided by Fondart and Leslie Fernández and Óscar Concha, it began in March with the visit of Juan Castillo, a former member of CADA (Collective of Art Actions), made drawings, interventions, photography and video record during his visit. Following “Context and Territory” concept, the series includes the visit of acclaimed national and international artists, in an effort to foster experimental production on visual arts, ties between visitors and the place and the exchange of experiences.  

From October to December, it will count on the participation of: Adolfo Torres (Chile), a cooker and engraver; Dagmara Wyskiel (Chile-Poland), in charge of Se Vende collective from Antofagasta; Simón Wunderlich (Germany), who experimentally works with places; four emerging regional artists; and, as art theoreticians in charge of establishing a dialogue with the guests, Ignacio Szmulewicz (arteycritica.cl) and David Romero (Mesa 8 and Plus magazine).

Source: Press release