2000
In 2000, Max Neuhaus held an exhibition of drawings at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in New York, known as "Max Neuhaus: Drawings." In this exhibition, which was not his only showing at P.S.1 that year, Neuhaus presented a body of works on paper that documented and visualized his ideas for his sound installations.
Exhibition Features Content: The drawings, often done in colored pencil, consisted of strips or "vectors" that recalled the musical stave. Although his sound works were immaterial, Neuhaus produced prolific drawings to explore the nature and configuration of acoustic space. Representation of Sound: The drawings served as tools for visualizing the sonic experience of his installations. Using precise lines and primary colors, Neuhaus noted the differences in sound and translated the auditory experience into a visual representation that was both technical and subjective.
Context: The exhibition was part of a series in which Neuhaus presented his works on paper, including those at the Christine Burgin Gallery in New York. The drawings presented spanned a period from 1968 to 1999. Other activities at P.S.1 in 2000 In the same year, Neuhaus also contributed to the exhibition "Volume: Bed of Sound." For that occasion, he wrote an introductory essay in the catalog titled "Sound Art?", in which he criticized the term "sound art" and questioned the categorization of works that contain or produce sounds.
Drawing Study, Four 'Identical' Rooms, 2000 - Pencil on paper - 40 x 64 cm Sound work references: Unrealized proposal. The Studio drawing was created for a project that never materialized. The study Four 'identical' rooms, is part of the works Rooms