Experimenter, visionary, creator of sounds. Villa Manin presents the Swiss artist Zimoun (Bern, 1977), author of visual and sound installations with hypnotic charm.

Made with simple materials such as cardboard boxes, bags, metal or wooden rods, the artist's installations appear like living organisms that enchant us both for the dynamics of their movements and for the sounds they produce.

The exhibition which opens today at Villa Manin, curated by Guido Comis, director of Villa Manin, is created by the regional body for cultural heritage that manages the villa and will be open to the public from 28 October 2023 until 17 March 2024 Supported by the Swiss Foundation for Culture Pro Helvetia, the exhibition also made use of the fundamental contribution of the students of the ISIA Roma Design institute in Pordenone, with which Erpac has signed a collaboration protocol.

The itinerary develops through nine large installations which occupy as many rooms of the villa.

Zimoun's installations are simultaneously kinetic works and large sound instruments. Each of the artist's creations is made up of modular elements which, driven by electric motors, produce recurring sounds or rhythms. The installations thus created are balanced between natural creation and ingenious invention, between study and chance, between geometry and abstraction. The works appear like fascinating natural creatures, so much so that those who observe them are led to look for the logical principle that governs their functioning as if they were faced with a new natural phenomenon.

As sound instruments, the works each generate, without human intervention, distinctive noises or rhythms that we are led, like their movements, to associate with a natural phenomenon.