Exhibition
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot - Barbican
Trained as a musician and composer, French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot creates works by drawing on the rhythms of daily life to produce sound in unexpected ways. His installation for The Curve will take the form of a walk-though aviary for a flock of zebra finches, furnished with electric guitars and other instruments and objects. As the birds go about their routine activities, perching on or feeding from the various pieces of equipment, they create a captivating, live soundscape.
Fine art doesn't often achieve the coveted status of 'viral sensation'. But then, not many exhibitions feature zebra finches rocking out on electric guitar. At the time of writing, Céleste Boursier-Mougenot has clocked up almost 600,000 hits for his clip of 40 zebra finches exploring an aviary furnished with amplified guitars and cymbals, 'playing' them as they do so.
