Dressing The Air is the brainchild of the London-based artist Paul Schütze.

In a career spanning 30 years, Schütze has exhibited his photographic and installation works in galleries and museums around the world, released over thirty albums of original recordings, scored a number of films and performed numerous concerts. He has collaborated with artists such as James Turrell, Josiah McElheny and Isaac Julien and musicians as diverse as Bill Laswell, Raoul Björkenheim, Toshinori Kondo, Lol Coxhill and Jah Wobble.

Dressing The Air is a unique open resource that aims to enrich creative thinking by encouraging a multi-sensory approach. A constantly evolving archive and creative news feed, Dressing The Air monitors and reports on a diverse range of art-forms from cinema to sculpture, painting to furniture design, land-art to perfumery.

dressing the air: the bureau of sensory intelligence

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Gilberto Zorio
Peter Mallet

14/09/13

Gilberto Zorio

Zorio has worked with found material, the discarded and the unwieldy since the 60s. What is striking about this show, in the juxtaposition of old work with new (some of it made for this venue) is the clarity of a language which feels quite timeless. It is very difficult to date the pieces and the surprising economy applied to the artist's ideas presents us with a very naked and direct body of work. Zorio's use of chemicals, electricity, sound and light, force a very physical experience of his pieces which are menacingly beautiful and succinct.

Blaine|Southern
"...have not you yourself sensed a difference in the light that suffuses such a room, a rare tranquility not found in ordinary light? Have you never felt a sort of fear in the face of the ageless, a fear that in that room you might looses all consciousness of the passage of time, that untold years might pass and upon emerging you should find that you had grown old and grey?"
- Junichiro Tanizaki, 1977, In Praise Of Shadows