Loris Cecchini, physical existence of sound wave
Wall wave vibration 2012
The artist Loris Cecchini was born in Milan in 1969 and he currently lives and works in Berlin. His work has covered photography, painting, sculpture and installation. He has been trying to explore the gap between the natural and artificial, as he said ” I am very tied to physical reality, to the qualities of the subject and to the functioning of things... The distortion, the structural changes, the biological changes, belong to nature, everything is destined to change in this form of vitality. I try to favour this movement of the objects, and in some works this it is more evident than in others. (Cecchini, 2010)
In the series of sculptures Wallwave Vibrations, he liquefied the walls of art galleries through sound waves. Each pattern of pieces is produced by digital way and then seamlessly applied to a flat surface with polyester resin. The physical manifestation of the vibrations expressed the difference of each time with different frequencies and intensities, and the overlapped visual pattern that becomes the phenomenon of echo like water ripples on a fluid layer. In this way, it presented the relationship between the sound and visual sense.
Although there are some critique said "Artists in this show have made ingenious use of materials to skewer what might be called viewers’ "visual comfort zones.""(Turner, 2016). It is undeniable that the Wallwave vibrations shows natural physical patterns in an objective way. Waves influence every aspect of our lives such as light spectrum of light, radio and heat, sonic vibration and quiet water ripples etc. Loris Cecchini made those things often invisible to the naked eye to be visible in the sculptural. This transform method excludes subjective emotions, stands between arts and science. When peoples’ eyes are attracted by the pattern, it also arouses some specific sound in peoples’ unconscious mind. Compare to his other work, in the Wallwave vibrations he paid more attention to the pure pattern to discuss the physical existence and sensory perception.