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Walter Marchetti

1999 / ISBN 0-88865-604-1
134 pages, b/w and colour, paperback

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Exhibition catalogue from Walter Marchetti and Zaj: Invitations from the Kenneth Coutts-Smith Archive at the Belkin (5 February—21 March 1999) with texts by Scott Watson, José Luis Castillejo, Walter Marchetti and Gabriele Bonomo. Walter Marchetti’s music began its present course after meeting Juan Hidalgo and Bruno Maderna in 1956 and befriending John Cage in 1958. He spent much of the 1960s and 1970s in Spain as part of the avant-garde formation, Zaj, founded in Madrid by Hidalgo and Marchetti. Zaj staged concerts, performances and interventions, published and exhibited in Madrid and Europe. Much of Marchetti’s practice has been dedicated to “visible music.” His chamber music confounds the distinctions made between composer, player and listener. This exhibition presents musical scores for La Caccia (Quartetto No. 2) / The Hunt (Quartet No. 2) (1965), two recent scores for birdcalls and chamber music installations conceived and theorized as musical works including Chamber Music No. 19 in which the viewer “plays” the piece by walking over a gallery floor covered with 20,000 pounds of course, white salt. Chamber Music No. 293 will be performed by Marchetti at the opening.

 

  • Gabriele Bonomo

    Writer
  • José Luis Castillejo

    Writer
  • Walter Marchetti

    Artist

    Walter Marchetti (Italian, 1931-2015) was an artist and composer who adopted John Cage’s dadaist aesthetic and pioneered interactive and concrete music. In 1964 he formed the ZAJ group (a sort of European version of Fluxus) with Juan Hidalgo in Milan.

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  • Scott Watson

    Curator

    Scott Watson (Canadian, b. 1950) is Director Emeritus and Research Fellow at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia. A curator whose career has spanned more than thirty-five years, Watson is internationally recognized for his research and work in curatorial and exhibition studies, contemporary art and issues, and art theory and criticism. His distinctions include the Hnatyshyn Foundation Award for Curatorial Excellence in Contemporary Art (2010); the Alvin Balkind Award for Creative Curatorship in BC Arts (2008) and the UBC Dorothy Somerset Award for Performance Development in the Visual and Performing Arts (2005). Watson has published extensively in the areas of contemporary Canadian and international art. His 1990 monograph on Jack Shadbolt earned the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize in 1991. Recent publications include Letters: Michael Morris and Concrete Poetry (2015); Thrown: British Columbia’s Apprentices of Bernard Leach and their Contemporaries (2011), a finalist for the 2012 Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize; “Race, Wilderness, Territory and the Origins of the Modern Canadian Landscape” and “Disfigured Nature” (in Beyond Wilderness, McGill University Press, 2007); and “Transmission Difficulties: Vancouver Painting in the 1960s” (in Paint, Vancouver Art Gallery, 2006).

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  • Exhibition

    5 February 1999 – 21 March 1999

    Walter Marchetti & Zaj invitations from the Kenneth Coutts-Smith Archive

    Walter Marchetti’s music began its present course after meeting Juan Hidalgo and Bruno Maderna in 1956 and befriending John Cage in 1958. He spent much of the 1960s and 1970s in Spain as part of the avant-garde formation, Zaj, founded in Madrid by Hidalgo and Marchetti. Zaj staged concerts, performances and interventions, published and exhibited in Madrid and Europe. Much of Marchetti’s practice has been dedicated to “visible music.” His chamber music confounds the distinctions made between composer, player and listener. This show presents: musical scores for La Caccia (Quartetto No. 2) / The Hunt (Quartet No. 2), 1965; two recent scores for birdcalls; and chamber music installations conceived and theorized as musical works including Chamber Music No. 19 in which the viewer “plays” the piece by walking over a gallery floor covered with 20,000 pounds of course, white salt. Chamber Music No. 293 will be performed by Marchetti at the opening.

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