Max Neuhaus: Evocare l’udibile / Évoquer l’auditif (1995) [IT/FR, EN]

Catalogue for the exhibition held at Villa Arson, Nice (FR), and Castello di Rivoli, Turin (IT), in 1995. With texts by Stuart Morgan, Yehuda Safran, a.o.

“The Drawing After

After finishing a sound work, if time allows, I wait several months before listening to it again. This is the first time I can stand outside the work and see what it is that I have made. It is only at this point after experiencing the work with distance that I make its circumscription drawing.

This drawing, two panels, a visual image and a handwritten text, integrates two traditional forms of communication to circumscribe something both invisible and indescribable. The image is not the drawing nor is the text: the drawing is what they synthesize together. When read in parallel, they evoke a central idea of the sound work, a point of departure and a reference, for reflection.” (Max Neuhaus, source [includes also an English version of a text by Yehuda Safran included in the catalogue])

Publisher Charta, Milan, 1995
ISBN 8881580462, 9788881580460
129 pages
via Charles

WorldCat

PDF (41 MB)
Transcriptions of descriptions of the featured works (in English, TXT)
Web version of the exhibition (at Max-Neuhaus.info)

See also Max Neuhaus, Sound Works, 3 vols., 1994.