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Studio: Samson Young

Past exhibition
28 April - 19 June 2021
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Samson Young Support Structure # 7, 2019, 3D-printed nylon © the artist
Samson Young Support Structure # 7, 2019, 3D-printed nylon © the artist

Capitain Petzel is pleased to announce a Studio Exhibition with the Hong Kong artist and composer Samson Young (b. 1979). At the heart of this presentation is a row of 3D-printed blocks called Support Structures, a series in which Young explores the remnants of 3D-printing technology’s production processes. As Young explains, “for this series, I modified the support structures needed for past works, to look like landscapes or buildings. I have control over the form of the 3D model that the machine aims to produce, but very little control over how these support structures turn out.”

 

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Young similarly explores generative processes, and the interfacing of the digital and the physical in his new work DAO35, which is shown for the first time in this exhibition. This work belongs to a larger constellation of works-in-progress centered around Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching – a classical Taoist text from the 6th century BC. In the making of this series, the artist assigned a shape to each phoneme by implementing Paul Bourke’s “super-shape formula” – an algorithmic framework for describing shapes in nature. Then, a randomly selected chapter would run through a program authored by the artist, which would filter out the nouns, the nouns’ phonemes, and assign to them the predetermined forms, stringing them into a shape. This final output – the agglomeration of individual phoneme forms – is further modified before it is 3D-printed. Adhering to his multimedia practice, Young has included in the sculpture electronic components which, in response to surrounding sound levels, displays a visual glitch of the text.

 

On view as well is Samson Young’s video work Screensaver. The work was made in response to an incidence when PBS (a major US broadcasting service) had shown archival footage from previous years’ firework shows in a ‘live’ broadcast, as poor weather conditions had affected the quality of 2016 display. The artist collected footages of the broadcast in question, and altered them into pulsing lines and colors by zooming into the image. The soundtrack of Screensaver consisted of a computer-generated ambient composition, and a recording of reactions to the visuals, performed by members of Hong Kong Voices – a Hong Kong-based chamber choir. The results are combined into a working computer-screensaver.

 

Samson Young has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions around the world, among others at ORDET, Milan (2021); Ryosoku-in Temple, Kyoto (2020); SMART Museum, Chicago (2019); M+ Pavilion, Hong Kong (2018); Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany (2016). Group exhibitions include Gropius Bau, Berlin (2019); Performa 19 Biennale, New York (2019); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2018); National Museum of Art, Osaka (2018); National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul (2017); and documenta 14: documenta radio, Kassel (2017). In 2017, he represented Hong Kong in a solo project at the Hong Kong Pavilion of the 57th Venice Biennale. In 2020, he was awarded the inaugural Sigg Prize. His works are held in the collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; M+ Museum, Hong Kong; Mori Art Museum, Japan; the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; and Kadist, Paris/ San Francisco, among others. Samson Young is represented by Galerie Gisela Capitain in Cologne, Friedrich Petzel in New York, and Edouard Malingue Gallery in Hong Kong. This exhibition was created in close collaboration with Galerie Gisela Capitain.

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Works
  • Samson Young Support Structure # 7 , 2019 3D-printed nylon 25.4 x 25.4 x 11.5 cm 10 x 10 x 4.5 inches
    Samson Young
    Support Structure # 7 , 2019
    3D-printed nylon
    25.4 x 25.4 x 11.5 cm
    10 x 10 x 4.5 inches
  • Samson Young Support Structure # 8, 2019 3D-printed nylon 13.3 x 28 x 14 cm 5.3 x 11 x 5.5 inches
    Samson Young
    Support Structure # 8, 2019
    3D-printed nylon
    13.3 x 28 x 14 cm
    5.3 x 11 x 5.5 inches
  • Samson Young Support Structure # 4, 2019 3D-printed nylon 20.3 x 43 x 18.5 cm 8 x 16.9 x 7.3 inches
    Samson Young
    Support Structure # 4, 2019
    3D-printed nylon
    20.3 x 43 x 18.5 cm
    8 x 16.9 x 7.3 inches
  • Samson Young Support Structure # 9, 2019 3D-printed nylon 48.2 x 10.8 x 14 cm 19 x 4.3 x 5.5 inches
    Samson Young
    Support Structure # 9, 2019
    3D-printed nylon
    48.2 x 10.8 x 14 cm
    19 x 4.3 x 5.5 inches
  • Samson Young Screen Saver, 2017 One channel video on computer monitor Length: ca. 1h, 14min, Loop 50.5 x 89 cm 19.1 x 35.1 inches (Dimensions variable) Edition 1 of 3
    Samson Young
    Screen Saver, 2017
    One channel video on computer monitor
    Length: ca. 1h, 14min, Loop
    50.5 x 89 cm
    19.1 x 35.1 inches
    (Dimensions variable)
    Edition 1 of 3
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Installation Views
  • Studio Exhibition: Samson Young, 2021 © the artists. Courtesy Capitain Petzel, Berlin. Ph: Jens Ziehe
    Studio Exhibition: Samson Young, 2021 © the artists. Courtesy Capitain Petzel, Berlin. Ph: Jens Ziehe
  • Studio Exhibition: Samson Young, 2021 © the artists. Courtesy Capitain Petzel, Berlin. Ph: Jens Ziehe

    Studio Exhibition: Samson Young, 2021 © the artists. Courtesy Capitain Petzel, Berlin. Ph: Jens Ziehe

  • Studio Exhibition: Samson Young, 2021 © the artists. Courtesy Capitain Petzel, Berlin. Ph: Jens Ziehe

    Studio Exhibition: Samson Young, 2021 © the artists. Courtesy Capitain Petzel, Berlin. Ph: Jens Ziehe

  • Studio Exhibition: Samson Young, 2021 © the artists. Courtesy Capitain Petzel, Berlin. Ph: Jens Ziehe

    Studio Exhibition: Samson Young, 2021 © the artists. Courtesy Capitain Petzel, Berlin. Ph: Jens Ziehe

  • Studio Exhibition: Samson Young, 2021 © the artists. Courtesy Capitain Petzel, Berlin. Ph: Jens Ziehe

    Studio Exhibition: Samson Young, 2021 © the artists. Courtesy Capitain Petzel, Berlin. Ph: Jens Ziehe

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