METRONOM

From 16 to 19 May 2019 at Somerset House in London, Metronom will take part, within Discovery Section, in Photo London 2019.

Metronom offers a selection of recent works by the artists Kenta Cobayashi and TILO & TONI, a combination of two different but complementary visions of the approach to the photographic medium.

The artistic duo TILO & TONI have designed a specific set-up that brings Im Walde rauscht der Wasserfall and Summer Collection series into dialogue. The first, result of the most recent research, is composed of black and white photographs, analogical prints, made starting from original negatives through processes of manipulation in the darkroom. Man's relationship with nature, self-representation, search for spirituality ... the 'noise of the waterfall' composes an absolutely contemporary but timely and precise narrative in the references to the history of art and photography. 'The images generate other images, the appropriation is not a choice but an inevitable process' so they present their Summer Collection, a 'collection' of images that through a meticulous construction of subjects and objects represented tests the production methods and use of contemporary photography. In Summer Collection, TILO & TONI puts together a collection of images, drawings, graphics and photographs of everyday life, re-contextualised and reissued in many ways, as a demonstration that pictures are interconnected matters in a constant recycling process. Analogue photography meets contemporary painting and on the other side - with reference to the aspect of language - pop music meets the rhetoric of fashion and modern magazines. The duo idea is basically a kind of re-enactment of the usage of the images, being curious about the possible result of the operation.

The works of Kenta Cobayashi, mainly composed by pictures and video connected to digital and pixel aesthetics, is carried away by a technological flow that seems to tend towards fading. His attitude is the result of a personal aesthetic and conceptual research, aimed at implementing a synthesis between physical and digital, capable of giving rise to distortions or areas of 'error' made ad hoc, created to mimic the speed of data transmission through the network, as a process that becomes form. Images, deformed as scratched, represent Cobayashi's intention to express how photography is the result of the interference of several dimensions, going far beyond its two-dimensional structure. 

Image: Kenta Cobayashi, City (Kuala Lumpur), #smudge, 2015

Photo London
METRONOM | Booth D16
16 -19 May 2019
Preview by invitation: 15 May 2019
Somerset House, London