On Sound and Visual
Mark Francis Collaborative series
Curated by Patricia Bosso
Sound is a constitutive element in Francis’ paintings. A wide sound spectrum from sound design and contemporary choir to punk-rock. Composers engage in Francis’s work, interweaving sound and creating a site where the visual and sound have the opportunity to expand, affect each other and be perceived beyond their respective disciplines.
RESONATE
Mark Francis, paintings
Andy Cowton, sound
Common actions and analogies, from the physical movement in the production of both painting and sound as well as elements such as tension, space, time, vibration, texture, colour, form and harmony are played and explored. In Shaw's words, "the sustained sound interacts with the environmental space, the focus on the temporal nature of music is offset and replaced by the occupation of space, a transgression from the borders of the aural to the border of the visual. In addition, a sound of certain volume - the dynamic is also not specified - can become almost palpable and corporeal when the body is vibrated by its air pressure waves”. Sound and painting in a state of flux giving life to a new Corps Sonore that Resonates.
Premiered at Ubicua Gallery
Presented also at Fox Jensen Gallery New Zealand under the title Jericho.
Mark Francis selected solo exhibitions include: ‘Re-Echo’ Palazzo Collicola Spoleto, Italy (2022); ‘White Light’, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin (2019); Arena, Abbot Hall Gallery, UK (2010) Pulse, Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane, Dublin, (2008), and Elements, Milton Keynes Gallery, UK (2000).
Francis' work is represented in the collections of The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Tate Modern, London; Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco; Museum of Modern Art, Miami; The Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri and Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane and in private and corporate collections worldwide.
Andy Cowton has been composing for film and television for over 30 years. He has composed for numerous companies, most notably for Russell Maliphant whose works include ‘Push’ and ‘Two’ with Silvie Guillem (Olivier and South Bank Awards), ‘Lest We Forget' for the English National Ballet and ‘Rochester’ by Isaac Julien. Recent works include TV series ‘The Surgeons Cut’ which received a BAFTA; ‘Dying to Divorce’: a documentary nominated for the BAFTAs and the Oscars. ‘The Lost Surrealist’ won the Grierson Award for Best Arts Documentary and an RTS award in 2018.
REVERB FIELD
Mark Francis , paintings
Jorge Bosso , composer, celllist
Reverb Field is a music work by composer Jorge Bosso that builds on layers of voices, movement and texture.
A body of sound that is meant to create, as the music progresses, an emotional tie between us and Francis' canvas; rather than musically represent or describe a visual idea.
Reverb Field is a realm of feelings in contemplation.
Jorge A. Bosso premiered his composition Bridges, as the opening of the jubilee of Dimitri Shostakovich, chaired by Mtislav Rostropovich, at the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin. In 2009, at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory, a choral work, Der Frühling der Minnesanger - mixed choir, Bach's Partita II for solo violin and ancient texts intertwined with thoughts of sacred secularism. The following year, at the Martha Argerich Project in Lugano, Bosso presented an orchestration of the Sonata op. 18 by Richard Strauss and conducted by Alexander Vedernikov. His compositions include chamber, orchestral, choral and symphonic-choral works. He has received commissions and collaborated with numerous festivals, institutions and soloists. Dora Schwarzberg, Enrico Dindo, Mario Brunello, Gavriel Lipkind, Daniel Müller Schott, Martha Argerich. In 2018 he was commissioned for- Der Dichter spricht Schumann / Bosso and Das Buchstabenhaus - by the Wiener Staatsoper.
