This book documents for the first time the space-specific
installations that Zimoun has realized since 2009.
Swiss artist Zimoun enjoys significant international renown for an
oeuvre that he has been creating over a period of some twenty years.
Zimoun uses mechanical principles of rotation and oscillation to set
things in motion and generate sounds. He uses mundane, unspectacular
materials and conventional industrial products. For his works, he
develops small, minimalist apparatuses that generate tonal and visual
complexity when activated, despite their fundamental simplicity. These
mechanical contraptions are often used hundreds of times in the
installations, creating visual and acoustic spaces with fascinating
power and poetry.
This book presents sixty-five of these site-specific installations that
Zimoun realized between 2009 and 2021 in various art galleries and
museums around the world. The full-page images are supplemented with
brief texts by international authors, who outline a variety of
perspectives on Zimoun's work. Two concise essays consider and position
his oeuvre in the wider international and art historical context. QR
codes provided with all the images extend the book by enabling the
direct playback of video documentations available online, thus offering
the reader the additional dimension of sound and movement--the essential
elements of Zimoun's art.
