Rolf Julius
Rolf Julius (born January 25, 1939 in Wilhelmshaven ; † January 21, 2011 in Berlin ) was a German artist who mainly worked with sound installations . From 1995 to 1996 Julius was visiting professor at the University of the Arts in Bremen .
life and work
Julius studied art from 1961 to 1969 at the Universities of the Arts in Bremen and Berlin . Since the mid-1970s he has dealt with the use of contemporary music to support the perception of visual objects. At the end of the 1970s he began to use tones and noises for his work and to record his own sound compositions for this purpose. Through his works he gained national and then international recognition as a pioneer in the field of sound art . With the help of a PS1 scholarship, Julius studied in New York in 1983/84, followed by a working scholarship from the Berlin Senate in 1986 and a fellowship at the Japan Foundation in Kyoto in 1991 .
Julius' sound compositions are characterized by an "acoustic minimalism". He uses simple cassette recorders or tapes and standard loudspeakers to record and play back everyday noises. The noises, sounds and compositions recorded in this way are placed in unusual contexts and scenarios.
“With my pictures I create a musical space. With my music I create a pictorial space. Pictures and music are equivalent. They meet in the mind of the viewer and listener and result in something new. "
An example of this is his early work Concert for a Frozen Lake from 1980, in which he filled an icy Berlin lake with piano compositions from several loudspeakers in the hope that “the lake itself will become music”. The installation was terminated prematurely by the police due to disturbance of the peace. In his project How loud is the silence , he recorded sounds of the tropical rainforest on the Amazon over several days , which he put together into a three-part composition with overlapping parts and then played back over numerous loudspeakers both inside and outside the museum rooms.
In addition to the exhibitions and performances, Julius also published records of his compositions, which critics ascribed a " Zen- like" quality.
For his services to the development of sound art, Julius was awarded the Honorary Prize of the German Sound Art Prize at Art Cologne in 2004 and the Hannah Höch Prize in 2005 for his life's work .
The Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh had exhibitions on some of his works.
Rolf Julius died on January 21, 2011 at the age of 71. Julius was married and had a daughter.
Exhibitions (selection)
- For eyes and ears . 1980, Academy of Arts
- Music for a long time . 1983. PS1 Museum, New York . 1992, Xebec Hall, Kobe, Japan.
- Sound installations . 1984. GAK Society for Contemporary Art Bremen
- documenta 8 . 1987. documenta 8 . kassel
- How loud is the silence . 1992. Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro , Museu de Arte, Brasília . 1993. State Art Gallery Berlin .
- sonambiente . 1996. Academy of the Arts, Berlin .
- Music for an almost empty room . 1998. Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin.
- Minimal affect . 2000. Museum of Contemporary Art (North Miami) , North Miami , Florida , USA.
- Music far away . 2005. Berlinische Galerie .
- Gray is silent . 2006. Bochum Art Museum .
- Noiseless (with Akio Suzuki ). 2007. MOMAK The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo .
- Further away (music for looking down) . 2008. New Museum Weserburg, Bremen .
- Under the surface . 2010. Cortex Athletico, Bordeaux
Collections
- Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
- Hamburger Bahnhof , Museum of the Present, Berlin
- Les coopérateurs - Frac Limousin, Limoges
- Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde
- New Museum Weserburg , Bremen
- Hamburger Kunsthalle
- Bochum Art Museum
- Art Association Bremerhaven
Awards
- German Sound Art Prize (Honorary Prize) 2004
- Hannah Höch Prize 2005
Books
- 6 rooms (cells) . 1994. - ISBN 978-3-928417-33-4
- Light as Air (with Felix Hess). 2003. Kehrer Verlag. - ISBN 978-3-933257-65-9
- Small Music (gray) . 2005. Kehrer Verlag. - ISBN 978-3-936636-12-3
- Gray is silent . 2006. Kehrer Verlag. - ISBN 978-3-939583-12-7
Sound carrier
- 6 rooms (cells) . (1. CD) in catalog: Rolf Julius, 6 rooms (cells), an installation. Exhibition company for contemporary art Zollverein GmbH, 1994
- Sound bow: Small Music . 1995. Edition RZ. (4 CDs)
- Dance for two blue rectangles . 1996. Edition RZ.
- (half) black . 2001. Edition RZ.
Web links
- Works by Rolf Julius in the Anselm Dreher gallery
- Rolf Julius at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Author portrait of Rolf Julius at Kehrer Verlag.
- ^ Concert for a frozen lake at MedienKunstNetz
- ↑ Review , othermusic.com; accessed on Sep. 18 2016
- ↑ German Sound Art Prize 2004
- ^ Hannah Höch Prize 2005 to Rolf Julius . art-in-berlin, November 16, 2005
- ↑ Entry at the Mattress Factory
- ^ Rolf Julius 1939 - 2011 , accessed on Sep. 18. 2016
- ↑ MOMAK , Tokyo.
- ^ Neues Museum Weserburg, Finkenberg Collection , accessed on February 4, 2011
- ↑ Collection of the Kunsthalle Hamburg, J, Julius ( Memento of the original from July 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 4, 2011
- ↑ Rolf Julius - (half) black - Review at Jazzdimensions , accessed on February 4, 2011
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Julius, Rolf |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sound installation artist and university professor |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 25, 1939 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Wilhelmshaven |
DATE OF DEATH | January 21, 2011 |
Place of death | Berlin |