Jonsi
1010 North Highland Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90038
Saturday, November 16 at 6:00 PM 8:00 PM
Ends Jan 9, 2020
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is pleased to announce its first solo exhibition with multidisciplinary artist Jonsi, on view at the gallery's Los Angeles space from November 16, 2019 through January 9, 2020. What is the shape of sound? What does it feel like? Can we smell it? How does it move through your body and what kind of sensations does it trigger? These are the questions that are posed by Jonsi in his first exhibition at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in Los Angeles. Best known for producing distinctive musical sounds ranging from hypnotic ambient incantations to driving sonic waves as a member of the band Sigur Rós, Jónsi has expanded his artistic practice over the past few years in a series of collaborations with visual artists such as Doug Aitken, Olafur Eliasson, Merce Cunningham and most recently the artist and composer Carl Michael von Hausswolf with whom he formed the musical duo Dark Morph. In the wake of these collaborations, Jonsi's most recent solo aesthetic explorations have resulted in a series of immersive installations that sculpt with sound as they ask us to meditate on the liminal threshold between our bodies and the world around us.