The Hogar Collection
362 Grand Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 11211
tel.718.388.5022     info@hogarcollection.com      www.hogarcollection.com

*New Gallery Hours: Thursday 1:00 - 7:00 pm,   Friday - Monday 12:00 - 7 pm    and by appointment

For immediate release:

Damian Catera

The End of History

May 22 – June 22

Opening Reception: Friday, May 29th,  6-9pm

Friday, June 12,  7-10 pm

A special sound performance featuring Damian Catera's improvisational algorithmic based “DeCompositions”

The Hogar Collection is pleased to announce, The End of History, the much-anticipated solo exhibition of sound, video and works on paper by Damian Catera.  The core of his newest body of work delves into a complexly deconstructive manipulation of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor for organ; expressed both sonically and in the form of digital prints of the manipulated score.  Known for his masterful use of the MAX/MSP algorithmic computer-programming environment, Catera writes and creates an elaborate labyrinth of randomized parameters, which he uses to feed his original source material into, unleashing a fine tuned, probability based soundscape, which allows for the “liberation” of music that has been trapped inside a class defined system of cultural production for several centuries.   Inspired by the Marxist/Hegelian idea of the end of history, where the result is a free Utopic society, Catera’s 5.1-surround sound work places the listener into an immersive, multi textural environment of invigorated, repurposed sound.

Alongside the sound work Catera’s newest investigations with digital prints on paper represent a mystifying and dizzying array of the original scores as they morph into their new incarnations.  To be seen as one possibility of an abstract representation or an analogy of the sonic pieces, the prints reflect and amplify the synesthetic quality of the transformative process.

To further expand upon his ongoing interest in the synesthetic phenomenon, Catera will also present, The Memory Project, a series of video works that borrow from a current system of cultural production; the internet.   Culled from amateur bootleg concert footage of rock spectacles downloaded from YouTube, Catera removes the soundtrack of the original footage and morphs the images into beautifully abstract, unrecognizable and visually melodic torrents, which function as an examination into the process of memory as an inexact discontinuity.

Damian Catera is an interdisciplinary sound and media artist, electroacoustic composer and improviser. Catera's work reflects interests in critical analysis, experimental composition/ improvisation and transmission.  His primary mission as an artist is to blur disciplinary boundaries often utilizing appropriated material and algorithmic processing.   In recent years, his work has been exhibited and performed Internationally at venues including the New Museum of Contemporary Art, The Kitchen, the ZKM institute in Germany, the Institute for Contemporary Art in Prague, the National Gallery in Prague, The Walker Center, The Adler Planetarium, The Chelsea Museum, Art in General, ICMC ’96 in Hong Kong and MediaForum 2003 in Moscow among others.  He received an MFA in Electronic Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a BA in Political Science from Siena College.   He also studied Electroacoustic Composition at Les Atelier UPIC, the Paris-based institute founded by composer Iannis Xenakis.  Damian is the recent recipient of a 2008 Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.

*For more information or images, please contact Todd Rosenbaum (director) at 718.388.5022.

*New Gallery Hours: Thursday 1- 7 pm,   Friday - Monday 12- 7 pm   and by appointment

The gallery is conveniently located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and is easily accessible by all forms of transportation.

Subway:
L or G Train to Lorimer St, exit on Metropolitan, walk under BQE towards Manhattan, left on Marcy Ave, 2 blocks turn right on Grand at the corner of Marcy.

L Train to Bedford Ave, walk south on Bedford Ave to Grand St. Turn left on Grand St, walk 4 blocks, between Havemeyer and Marcy.

JMZ to Marcy Ave, walk 5 blocks north on Marcy, turn left on Grand St.

By car from Manhattan - Drive over the Williamsburg Bridge, 2nd immediate exit at South 5th St, left at light on Havemeyer, right on Grand Street, 4 blocks on right.

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