VIRTUAL DREAM CENTER 5.1
05/05/2021

Virtual Dream Center 5.1
Application for Mac and PC that features the following virtual exhibitions :
Antone Könst, « NOTHING GARDEN »
Peder Rasmussen, « BACKSTAGE »
Johannes DeYoung, « BIG HYPNOTIC EYE PERVERSION »
« BLINN AND LAMBERT »
Jaena Kwon, « THE HIDDEN DIMENSION »
Anne-Charlotte Yver, « UROBORA ISLAND »
The Chaos Engine, « ZONE IMPECCABLE »
Antone Könst – Nothing Garden
2021

Nothing Garden
Virtual exhibition : Antone Könst
Curator : Nicholas Steindorf
Sound design : Jos Könst
« This is kind of the same thing my work is always dealing with – language and reality, the failure that makes us feel like nothing matters and nothing is real or everything is more real than it is. I think about stylization this way, style is a way of simplifying or embellishing a gesture so that it can get closer to representing reality than mimetic representation… and stylization also gets closer to nature through abstraction, closer to something non-objective. »
Extract from the press release « Nothing Garden », by Antone Könst
Peder Rasmussen – Backstage
2021

Backstage
Virtual exhibition : Peder Rasmussen
Level design : Jean-Baptiste Lenglet
Sound design : Julien Loubière
« In 2013 I was about to show my work in a museum with classic art in Denmark, and I thought it would be interesting to adopt this old technique. That is the reason for all these test plates. They are mainly tests of the technique but also a research in possible new motives. Motives and technique are always interactive in my work. »
Extract from the press release « Backstage », by Peder Rasmussen
Johannes DeYoung – Big Hypnotic Eye Perversion
2021

Big Hypnotic Eye Perversion
Virtual exhibition : Johannes DeYoung
« Here is a hushed message — a language of alignments. Ruins or runes of something once valued; remnants of structure adjacent to meaning. There might be an order, but who has time to look anymore? Instruments pervert the senses. Perversion is an accident of time. »
Extract from the press release « Big Hypnotic Eye Perversion », by Johannes DeYoung
Blinn and Lambert
2021

Blinn and Lambert
Virtual exhibition : Blinn and Lambert
« A selection of folding places and memories. Sketches and differentials on material kicking around our studio. Fata Morgana. Empire State Building. A watering can. »
Extract from the press release « A Rotation of Folds », by Blinn and Lambert
Jaena Kwon – The Hidden Dimenson
2021

The Hidden Dimenson
Virtual exhibition : Jaena Kwon
Level design : Nicholas Steindorf
Sound design : Julien Loubière
« I selected four completed paintings and created an imaginary space where each image in the canvas was expanded into an infinite space. Working in VR allows me to bridge the gap between my vision of the painting and the completed work on canvas. The immersive nature of the medium allowed me to focus on a different level of detail that is reminiscent of the painting space, yet specific to the digital media. »
Extract from the press release « The Hidden Dimenson », by Jaena Kwon
Anne-Charlotte Yver – Urobora Island
2021

Urobora Island
Virtual exhibition : Anne-Charlotte Yver
Sound design : Augustin Steyer
« Sur l’île de béton troué de lacs d’acide s’érige un bâtiment en verre, hébergeant une exposition de sculptures. Ces sculptures-machines tubulaires à l’échelle architecturale s’acharnent à maîtriser et parer le système entropique à l’œuvre sur l’île. Certaines pompent l’acide des lacs pour le stocker dans de grands aquariums où du béton se dissout lentement, alors que d’autres pompent du béton au cœur du sol et des roches pour l’injecter entre deux vitres, coffrage invisible dans lequel se coulent les murs du bâtiment. »
Extract from the press release « Urobora Island », by Carla Matterlein
The Chaos Engine – Zone impeccable
2021

Zone impeccable
Virtual exhibition : Jean-Baptiste Lenglet
« La pratique de Matsuzawa se fonde notamment sur un langage poétique. Qu’il s’agisse de formules ramassées, proches de l’aphorisme, de mandalas textuels, de variations autour d’un concept, ou de poèmes en prose, une dimension littéraire habite l’ensemble de ses œuvres. « Zone impeccable » se présente ainsi comme un hommage au langage de Matsuzawa, qui tâche d’en synthétiser les trois caractères fondamentaux : hermétisme, ésotérisme et surréalisme. Un pastiche de l’artiste accueille le visiteur à l’entrée de la galerie :
Autrui (la genèse idéelle) Au bord du champ transcendantal, le sens du devenir, des impressions disjointes, est-ce le moi empirique, ou les restes d’une civilisation d’outre-ciel. »
Extract from the press release « In A New Zone Impeccable », by Alexandre Taalba