Tectonics 2025 Artist Profile
Baudouin Oosterlynck
Probably it has something to do with ecology but I will not discuss political statements.
I am a Sound artist that had an evolution from NOISE to essentiel behaviour of listening without producing sounds.
In 1990 and 1991 ... I rode 15.000 km by bicycle and walking鈥� to hear the qualities of silence in Europe , also in Scotland.
Too long to explain what you can hear but you hear the pressure of the air on your timpany . Variations with altitude , humidity and temperature, and for instance from the scin of the nature where you are in. We need 6 days calm and silence to be able to hear the Variations of Silence.
There is so much to observe .
What would we do if our ears were implanted in the back ?
Shall I return when I speak to one person ?
Those reflexions interest me.
My first pseudonym was "L'oreille cassée " in the sixties. 鈥� !!!
Born in Kortrijk (B), 1946. Autodidact. Sound artist.
Compositions since 1972 - Sound performances since 1975 - Music and sound installations since 1978 - Variations of Silence 1990-91 - Acoustic Prostesises and listen instruments since 1994 .
More than 200 presentations in galleries, museums and contemporary music festivals.
Fundacio Miro Barcelona, Museo Reina Sofia Madrid, Muhka Antwerp, Ludwig Museum Koblenz, Maison de la Culture Namur, Saline Royale d' Arc-et-Senan, Festival Archipel Genève, Jardins musicaux Neuchâtel, Ars Musica Brussels, Palazzo Martinengo Brescia, De Brakke Grond Amsterdam, Witte de With Rotterdam, Marseille, Donostia San Sebastian, Paris, Lille , Tournai, Angers, Academy Prague, St.-Setiers and Vassivière, NUS Singapore, Seneffe, Gent, MAC's Grand-Hornu, South London Gallery, Museo Herreriano Valladolid, Bozar Brussels, Musée des Beaux-Arts Tournai, MIM Brussels, Sasso Marconi Bologna , etc. ... Next may 2025 Tectonics Glasgow
14 monographs - Largest monograph Le Fil Jaune - Laurent Busine, édition MAC's Grand- Hornu 2011, 254 pp. / METAPHON LP &CD Boxes./ More than 200 catalogs, also L'art en Belgique depuis 1975 - Flor Bex, Fonds Mercator / L'art du xx siècle 1939-2002 - Daniel Soutif, Citadelles et Mazenod.
Member of the Académie royale de Belgique , Classe des Arts since 2007.
