Rindon Johnson and Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork, The Bells Pursuing One Another, 2022
© Courtesy The artist and François Ghebaly 2022

Exhibition by the winner of the 12th Ernst Rietschel Art Prize for Sculpture 2022

Rindon Johnson (born in San Francisco, USA in 1990) has been awarded the Ernst Rietschel Art Prize for Sculpture 2022. Johnson is a visual artist and writer. His multidisciplinary art practice blurs the boundaries between sculpture, photography, performance, poetry, and virtual reality, combining language and art. He is exhibiting two works at the Albertinum.

  • DATES 26/08/2022—27/11/2022

In Zusammenarbeit

In collaboration with the artist Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork (born in Long Beach, USA in 1982), he has developed »The Bells Pursuing One Another« (2022), a CGI animated film incorporating a video game. Both levels are viewed from the first-person perspective, although the visual field corresponds to that of a Cuvier‘s beaked whale while diving. The aim of the game is to catch a giant squid, in cooperation with a partner whale, in the depth of the Great Bahama Canyon. What ostensibly merely offers amusement also prompts the players to consider the living conditions of marine animals and the massive threats they face through environmental destruction or sonic disturbances caused by humans.

Rindon Johnson and Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork, The Bells Pursuing One Another, 2022
© Courtesy The artist and François Ghebaly 2022
Rindon Johnson and Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork, The Bells Pursuing One Another, 2022 Animation by Pariah Interactive, Video Game Still

Begleitet wird das Kunstwerk

This is accompanied by a large-scale stained-glass installation, a sculptural work that complements the media artwork. While the film and video game reproduce the depths of the sea in black and white, the glass offers a fascinating, intoxicating riot of colour. On a long slope measuring almost five metres, a total of 102 individual, square pieces of opalescent glass are connected to each other by lead strips. They emulate the flowing of the water and the vastness of the constantly changing sky.

Rindon Johnson, The Bells Pursuing One Another, 2022
© Courtesy The artist and François Ghebaly 2022, Foto: Hans-Peter Klut
Rindon Johnson, The Bells Pursuing One Another, 2022 Glasinstallation

Rindon Johnson

Rindon Johnson is a visual artist and writer. His multidisciplinary art practice blurs the boundaries between sculpture, photography, performance, poetry, and virtual reality, combining language and art. Through multifarious forms of expression that range between language, object-based works of art using materials such as leather, wood, stone, or glass, and virtual reality, Johnson explores the impact of capitalism, racism, climate, and technology on our everyday lives and societal conditions. Rindon Johnson lives and works in Berlin.

Mann steht am Eingang eines Gebäudes
© Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Foto: Andreas Diesend
Rindon Johnson

Der Ernst-Rietschel-Kunstpreis

The Ernst-Rietschel-Art Prize for Sculpture is awarded by the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD) in association with the Antonius Association for the Advancement of Youth and Culture, which donates the prize money. The prize winner was selected by an independent jury.

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