Unique art experience through Sunday

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Hanner Hall art exhibit through Sunday

Four OSU students have collaborated with visiting artist Jorge Bachman on an exhibit in Hanner Hall dubbed “Fading Open: The Mind Recovers in Silence,” which is free and open to the public through this Sunday, April 27.

The exhibit uses found sounds to create an experience representing the spectrum of emotions from despair to hope. Visitors will explore a labyrinth-like installation, moving from room to room on the third floor of Hanner, encountering various sounds that students have collected and edited through the semester.

The exhibit is open for free to the public from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. daily through this Friday, April 25. It is also open Saturday and Sunday, April 26 and 27, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Bachman, a Swiss-Colombian artist who collects recordings exploring the sounds of everyday life, has been working with the sound recordings of the late Dale McKinney, a former associate professor of art at OSU, who was also a respected painter, printmaker, and sculptor. Bachman recently unveiled a site-specific multi-media piece using the recordings at the Postal Plaza Gallery. It will remain on display in the downtown museum for the rest of the semester alongside McKinney’s own kinetic sculptures, currently on view in “Sharing a Journey,” the OSU Museum of Art’s inaugural exhibition