Lot 29: Banks Violette

Black noise (Ampeg BA - 115) for S.P.
This work is from an edition of seven.

24 x 24 x 24 in. (61 x 61 x 61 cm).

Fiberglass, wood, epoxy, polyurethane, tinted epoxy, salt.

2005

Private collection, Belgium

I definitely get a lot of ideas from music and from musicians I've worked with. In the instance of Stephen O'Malley-who plays with the band Sunn O)))-he's involved with a lot of low-frequency kind of sub-audible compositions,” …things that are really less auditory and more physiological. That seems like a perfect complement to the idea of sculpture-it has weight, gravity, it extends itself into space, etc. How do you take a discrete object that is placed pretty much on a pedestal and make it radiate out into the environment? We fill it up with the sound equivalent of the sculpture. BANKS VIOLETTE
(C. Bollen, "Banks Violette," Interview Magazine)