Ian Balch

Del suo fratello

9 March - 27 March

Del suo fratello is a two-part project, a sound work and double video work.

The work presented in the gallery is both the document of a process work, that is inextricably about the senses and affect, and also a beautiful sumptuous and mysterious experience in and of itself.

The project is based on the work Capriccio sopra la lontananza del fratello dilettissimo (in six parts) by J.S.Bach. The title of the capriccio is connected to the departure of Johann Jacob (Bach's brother), Balch interpreted the six sections of the original score as specific materials that where intended to speak to the emotional tenor of the story in the music. Each of the materials chosen was used to construct sound boxes that were then 'played' by harpsichord expert Laurina Sableviciute. The resulting sound was recorded and will be heard in the gallery. The video imagery used is focused entirely on the musicians hands performing the work and framed lushly by the materials chosen; glass, bronze and smoked Perspex, salt on graphite, water, steel and drum skin.

Balch is an experienced artist who has exhibited in Chicago, Brussels, and Barcelona as well as comprehensively throughout Scotland. Dunedin has met him before during his residency through Artists at Work at the Otago Polytechnic school of Art in 2003.