Zimoun, born in Switzerland in 1977, is autodidact and residing in Bern. His work has been featured in numerous solo and group shows as well as performances throughout Europe, Asia, North and South America. Zimoun has been awarded different art prizes and residencies and has served as a guest lecturer.
In 2003, Zimoun and graphic designer Marc Beekhuis founded Leerraum - which serves as a label, networking hub and platform for creative exchange among those who explore forms and structures based on reductive principles and careful yet radical use of materials. To develope his work he has often collaborated with other artists and experts working in related fields (developement, architecture, science, research, engineeing,...).
Below you can read some quotes concerning Zimoun's work :
«Zimoun is best compared to a watchmaker of a self-reproducing time constructing his own gauging station.» Radjo Monk
«Using simple and functional components, Zimoun builds architecturally-minded platforms of sound. Exploring mechanical rhythm and flow in prepared systems, his installations incorporate commonplace industrial objects. In an obsessive display of curiously collected material, these works articulate a tension between the orderly patterns of Modernism and the chaotic forces of life. Carrying an emotional depth, the acoustic hum of natural phenomena blends effortlessly with electric reverberation in Zimoun's minimalist constructions.» Bitforms NYC
«The clean, elegant sound sculptures combine visual, sonic, and spatial elements in an organically balanced entirely artwork. Using simple and well conceived mechanical systems, Zimouns‘s work transforms and activates the space.» Jury Prix Ars Electronica 2010
«The results, powered by simple DC motors in kinetic musical action, recall some kind of natural, organic colony. Assembled in structures sculptural and architectural, this is real-world synthesis, constructed mechanically in motion.» Peter Kirn
«Zimoun creates more than moving structures; he develops a space where the oeuvre, once it’s set in motion, can create itself.» Oscar Gomez Povina
«I perceive Zimoun’s work as a unique, playful, light-hearted, and utterly complex approach and examination of the present.» Tom Gray«Minimal yet complex, monotonous yet varying constantly, these sound sculptures develop an uncanny strength.» Markus Sporndli
«These constantly moving installations seem to come alive, clumsy and mechanical.» Everydaylistening
«Observing Zimoun’s work opens connections to nature and natural phenomena, physics, quantum mechanics, complexity, simplicity, vitality, individuality, evolvement and growth, but also to industrialization, robotics, mass production and social phenomena, to space, architecture, cosmic white noise, phantasms and highly enjoyable experiences popping up at any moment. Art is supposed to activate and focus our attention. Zimoun’s work seems to be a sweeping and beautiful example for this.» Anton Richter
«...taking a multiple of small mechanisms, arranging them elegantly with an eye toward minimal affect and maximized geometry. When turned on, each results in a sound work with a varying degree of chance.» Marc Weidenbaum
«It is a physical and electronic representation of what I’ve come to believe is a kind of archetype of some sort. They each present a similar kind of movement that is found in the insectoid underbellies of nature all around us.» Whitehot Magazine
«Through a rigorous reductionism of the means used to produce sound, the emphasis is taken away from any kind of technological spectacle and kept firmly on the materials and their elaborated behavior in an overall system of events.» Xymara
«The room and its assorted assemblies have a laboratory quality that suggests cleanliness and sterility, and the automated contraptions necessarily have a robotic quality that’s off-putting yet simultaneously intriguing.» Fubiz
«Their very intrinsic banality make the end-result is utterly virtuosic.» Lo Han
