BEX & ARTS TERRITOIRES 12.06.2011 – 25.09.2011
English Concertina on iPod in Art Project; "The
Spirit of Hope".
Christina Hemauer and Roman Keller (http://www.hemauer.ch/
and http://www.romankeller.info) are two of the artists in the
exhibition organised by BEX & ARTS 2011.
This exhibition takes place in Park Szilassy in Bex-les-Bains,
Switzerland from 12.06.2011 to 25.09.2011.
Christina Hemauer and Roman Keller have for this project researched
the background of the Hope family, founders of the estate. In
doing so they came across the Wheatstone Ledgers, where Lady
Louisa Hope was entered as the buyer of four concertinas between
1853/1855.
Eventually they connected the concertina as a portable instrument
to the iPod of today.
Visitors of the exhibition can borrow a headphone with an iPod
at the entrance to the exhibition. You can walk through the
parc, look at the works of the other artists and listen to the
history of Lady Louisa Hope and the English Concertina, but
also to the concertina music of that period. And enjoy the magnificent
Swiss landscape.