Michael Snow's 'Suoni di Snow' at BASE Florence: A Time-Specific Sound Exhibition

Key facts

• Michael Snow was born in 1928.
• The exhibition 'Suoni di Snow' is at BASE / progetti per l’arte in Florence from November 2020.
• The exhibition is described as 'time-specific' with a temporal structure like a musical score.
• A live social media preview was held for audiences unable to visit due to lockdown.
• Key works include 'Snow In Vienna', 'Room', and 'Cityscape' (2019).
• 'Cityscape' features a drum and bass soundtrack using the Amen break from The Winstons' 'Amen, Brother' (1969), created with Mani Mazinani.
• Snow's first exhibition of paintings and drawings was in 1955.
• He worked at Graphics Films with George Dunning before Dunning directed the Beatles' 'Yellow Submarine'.
• 'New York Eye and Ear Control' (1964) combined free jazz with 'The Walking Woman' series.
• Andy Warhol and Gerard Malanga praised 'New York Eye and Ear Control' at its New York screening.
• 'Wavelength' (1967) was shot in Snow's studio with a fixed camera and zoom lens.
• The Beatles' 'Strawberry Fields Forever' plays on a radio in 'Wavelength'.
• 'The Last LP' (1987) is a vinyl project lamenting vinyl obsolescence, reissued by Discogs.
• 'Video Fields' (2002-2015) shows grass fields in Newfoundland, originally with a fan, later with a speaker.
• 'Cityscape' uses a camera apparatus similar to that for 'La Région Centrale' (1971).
• Snow turns 92 on December 10, 2020.
• Snow's 1967 statement: 'My paintings are made by a filmmaker, my sculptures by a musician...'