2001
Max Neuhaus, La Napoule, 2001

Max Neuhaus - Site independent sound works and the individual collector, 2002 

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The new work at La Napoule is a continuation of the direction I began with the work in Venice Biennal in 1999 - a sound work which can be relocated. 

The text panel of its drawing reads: 

Passing along / a walkway / in a formal / garden, / one encounters / a place / with air / of a different / density. 

The work forms a 'place' four by five meters along the main walkway of the formal garden in front of the chateau. It is quite magical. When you walk into it you feel as if you have walked through an invisible wall into a new domain. 

As well as using the underground sound sources I invented for Venice which make the work independent of any physical structure, here I have made the sound itself independent as well, detaching it from the site and making it more present. 

I plan a series individual works where this specific sound is placed in different contexts. Each work will have its own drawing with image and text reflecting the differences resulting from the sound's new aural and visual surround. 

Max Neuhaus