Pe Lang & Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri

An exhibition by artists Pe Lang and Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri opens Galerie Anhava’s programme for the year 2022. 

With their sound and kinetic sculptures and installations the two artists intend to create an inviting, sense-appealing experience inside the gallery space. Their works combine controlled and incontrollable, mechanical, and organic into a life-like organism, that forms and interacts in relation to its own components as well as the surrounding space. The movement of the motors steering the pieces is planned and controlled, but the door is left open for play and surprise to enter. Lang and Papalexandri-Alexandri talk about a form of organic programming.

A unique balance of opposing elements is characteristic to the works in the exhibition: balance between control and surprise, between light and heavy, concrete and illusion. The twines, cables and strings threading through the art works not only shape form and transmit motion or sound, but also intertwine the separate artistic approaches of the two artists to a coherent combination of elegant simplicity, organic roughness, and humour.

Pe Lang (b. 1974, Sursee, Sveitsi) combines hand built mechanic machineries, sound, and movement to the traditions of constructivism. 

Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri (b. 1974, Ptolemais, Greece) is a sound artist and composer and based in Switzerland and the US. 

Galerie Anhava

8.-30.1.2022 Tue-Fri 11.00-17.00, Sat-Sun 12.00-16.00

Free entry