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Can you feel a landscape’s rhythms? Tarek Atoui and the echo of improvisation

A preview of Tarek Atoui – Improvisation in 10 Days at Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan

Image shows artwork by Tarek Atoui The Rain, Water Bubble System, 2023 (detail) Mixed media installation Installation view, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, 2023 Courtesy the artist, Vitamin Creative Space © Ahina

Following the retrospective dedicated to the master of contemporary sculpture and icon of Nouveau Réalisme, Jean Tinguely, Milan’s Pirelli HangarBicocca opens 2025 with a pioneering solo exhibition in Italy dedicated to Tarek Atoui.

In the industrial epicenter of Milan, within the architectural confines of the Shed at Pirelli HangarBicocca, Tarek Atoui transforms the space into a dynamic field of fluid and unpredictable resonances. Improvisation in 10 Days, his inaugural solo exhibition in Italy, is not merely an exhibition in the traditional sense but an experimental, living organism. This ever-evolving entity draws its vitality from interaction with the public. The Lebanese artist, renowned for his capacity to explore sound in its most elemental physicality, conceptualises the exhibition as a dynamic environment wherein materials, instruments, and bodies continuously vibrate in synchrony while simultaneously rewriting and re-listening.

Originally trained as a musician, Atoui has expanded the scope of his artistic practice by investigating sound’s sculptural and performative dimensions. His work is deeply embedded in field research that leads him to collaborate with artisans, musicians, and local communities, pioneering innovative methods of sound production and perception. From Beirut to Paris, his artistic practice is influenced by both geographical and cultural vectors, evolving into…

Read the full article in Trebuchet 17 (April 2025)

Tarek Atoui, Improvisation in 10 Days.
Pirelli HangarBicocca, Via Chiese, 2, 20126, Milan.
February 6, 2025 – July 20, 2025.

[Featured image: Tarek Atoui The Rain, Water Bubble System, 2023 (detail)
Mixed media installation Installation view, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, 2023
Courtesy the artist, Vitamin Creative Space © Ahina]

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