Dialogues Trio with special guest – Julian Arguelles
Bruno Heinen – Piano
Andrea Di Biase – Bass
Jon Scott – Drums
Julian Arguelles – Sax
An evening of art, music and video inspired by the Twilight Zone. Dialogues Trio invite special guest Julian Arguelles to join them to respond to the works of the TV series. In a world premiere, drawings and video will be exhibited by exceptional Californian artist Eliot Rattle, who has been working on portraits inspired by the Twilight Zone for several years.
Heinen is a cool-headed and resourceful improviser with a beguiling touch, favouring slow-burning legato lines over overt displays of chops. This is a striking debut that marks out Heinen’s ensemble to be far more than just another piano trio.
(Tom Grey – London Jazz)
With my portraits I like trying to do what the 1950’s television show “The Twilight Zone” was able to do for me when I was a child, namely make the real and the unreal inhabit the same space. And it’s appropriate since the faces derive from film stills that I captured while watching the show, which was an experience that helped organize my aesthetic inclinations and was the one of the first things to introduce me to the possibility of things being seen and unseen simultaneously. The portraits usually contain heavily weighted faces that hover and multiply on top of one another or compress into thread-thin lines and travel throughout the page, becoming other faces or marks in the process. To me, the movement of the graphite, with all the shading, rubbing into, and erasing away seems like a magic trick, and I try to keep that air of spectacle in mind when deciding how to manipulate the faces. In a way I hope for these portraits, which vary greatly in size, to act as a second audience to the show, subtly multiplying or forming in the vicinity of other pieces.
With this type of working, my hand is heavily involved in the making of the marks, triggering a kind of focus that is uncharacteristically strict and meticulous in relation to my other work. My abstract pieces, which are made with gouache and oil paint, are made through a completely contrasting attitude towards the image. These are brought about through chance operations, which provide a more playful and impulsive set of marks, as well as a atmosphere not unlike that of a game. The lines of color are made by dipping spherical magnets in paint and throwing them onto a surface, after which I orbit another magnet above the painted one, allowing the invisible field to push and pull the line in an erratic manner, as if it was born, lived a life, and then died arbitrarily. With this technique I can let the marks make themselves, surprising even me as to the outcome, as well as letting me relinquish all my reflexes and anxieties about a finished product. The pattern of shifting back and forth between these two ways of making marks is a good way for me to balance my art, but it also provides me with a rhythm outside the art, making it a somewhat perpetual way of living and working. (Eliot Rattle)