Baraga & Raynaud: Popolna modrina — 53 variacij na Cyanometer @ SONICA 2026

Baraga & Raynaud: Popolna modrina — 53 variacij na Cyanometer
5. november–29. november 2026
Muzej sodobne umetnosti Metelkova (+MSUM)
Odprtje razstave: četrtek. 5. november 2026, ob 20.00
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Prvi večer 18. edicije festivala SONICA prinaša odprtje razstave, ki se navezuje na letošnjo festivalsko temo Celestial Shelters (nebesna zavetja).

PROGRAM SONICA 2026
https://sonica.si/PROGRAM-1

Popolna modrina je zvočno-vizualna instalacija Erica Raynauda in Martina Briclja Barage, nastala kot nadaljevanje nagrajenega Baragovega projekta Cyanometer - ta pa je poklon pionirskemu instrumentu Horacea Bénédicta de Saussureja za merjenje modrine neba kot pokazatelja onesnaženosti zraka. De Saussurovo orodje je preprosto akvarelno kolo, sestavljeno iz triinpetdesetih odtenkov modre. Odtenke lahko primerjamo z modrino neba in, tako je domneval de Saussure, jih povežemo s kakovostjo zraka.

Zvočni umetnik Éric Raynaud je za vizualno-zvočno instalacijo Popolna modrina sonificiral vsakega od teh odtenkov. Nastalo je 53 vinilnih plošč, vsaka od njih pa vsebuje sonifikacijo njegove modrine, njegove atmosfere in kakovosti zraka, ko se je modrina neba ujemala z odtenkom. Vsaka plošča nosi dve strani neba: ena stran vsebuje sonifikacijo podatkov iz Ljubljane, druga iz Ženeve — dveh mest, kjer deluje instalacija Cyanometer. Zvočni arhiv iz plošč in odtenkov modrin, razstavljen na galerijskih stenah, obiskovalce vabi, da izbirajo, kombinirajo in postavljajo plošče v medsebojni dialog ter tako iz nevidnih preobrazb neba izvabljajo neskončne, nenehno spreminjajoče se zvočne pokrajine.

Eric Raynaud (Fraction) je umetnik na rezidenci pri MoTI v okviru projekta Transition to 8: European Societies in Flux (TT8), ki je del programa Ustvarjalna Evropa in sofinanciran s sredstvi Evropske unije.
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Baraga & Raynaud: Perfect Blue — 53 Variations on Cyanometer
5–19 Nov 2026
Museum of contemorary art Metelkova (+MSUM)
Exhibition opening: Thursday, 5 Nov, at 8 pm

FREE ENTRY
The opening night of the 18th edition of SONICA brings an exhibition that echoes this year's theme, Celestial Shelters.
Perfect Blue is a sonic and visual installation, developed as a continuation of Martin Bricelj Baraga's award-winning Cyanometer* project — itself an homage to Horace Bénédict de Saussure's pioneering instrument for measuring the blueness of the sky as an indicator of air pollution. The tool is a simple watercolor wheel of 53 shades of blue, against which to measure the blueness of the sky and air quality.

In collaboration with sound artist Éric Raynaud, 53 vinyl records were pressed from this data, each holding a sonification of one shade — its blueness, its atmosphere, its quality of air. Each record carries two sides of sky: one side sonifies data from Ljubljana, the other from Geneva, the two cities where the Cyanometer installation lives. Placed across the gallery walls, this sonic archive invites visitors to select, combine and set the records in conversation, drawing out endless, ever-shifting sound atmospheres from the invisible transformations of the sky.

The Cyanometer by Martin Bricelj Baraga is a monument to the blueness of the sky. It is inspired by the original cyanometer invented by Horace-Bénédict de Saussure in 1789. The Cyanometer is both a monument and software that periodically collects images of the sky.
Eric Raynaud (Fraction) is an artist-in-residence at MoTA within Transition to 8: European societies in flux (TT8), a Creative Europe project co-funded by the European Union.