MUSIC – MidiMinuit

A rare sight, we have MidiMinuit playing a live set at FRAMED. The first time I heard this band was in 2019, when they just released their first album, „Round The Clock“, and were planning a second. I met with Yonatan (bass player) and told him I would love to have them play at FRAMED. It took over a year, but finally we managed. MidiMinuit will bring their atmospheric electronic twist on modern classical music and contemporary jazz. Across the show, they deliver hazy jazz jams, baroquely unfolding improvised feels, and snaking dynamic grooves.  The music is conceptual, cerebral, and sometimes cynical; it is highly imaginative and provides space for the listener to dive deep into some new sounds. Many have explored this kind of fusion between those musical styles, but none like this band, four experts in their respective fields, are harmoniously combining their music, creating a new entity.

The outfit is made up of pianist Julien Quentin, bass player Yonatan Levi, and electronic musicians Cesar Merveille & Adrien de Maublanc (Masomenos).

ART EXHIBITION – „Colonies“ Guy Lougashi

Guy Lougashi, born in Israel in 1976, is a self-taught visual artist, currently living in Berlin.

His various fields of activity all blend together in his continuous search for new and unconventional expressions of his inner world. Although adept in many techniques and materials, Guy has a special love and connection with paper in its various forms. This fascination stems from the constant white noise in his mind, a hum that propels him to be always on the move and to continue creating, giving new form to his inner commotion.

In his work, Guy maintains a fine balance between minimalism and complexity, harmony and disharmony, silence and (white) noise. Like a giant school of fish transforming and transfiguring in perfect harmony, his work stretches between flickering particles and a powerful presence. His play with layering, sculpting, sewing, negative and positive spaces is innovative, exciting, and thought- provoking.

There is a quiet [obsessive] flow of repetition in his work, each whole and independent of the former. Guy is in his world of spherical colonies with no beginning and no end.

Colonies 

The solo show of Guy Lougashi will present a selected series of pieces which will introduce the public to the artistic process of Lougashi by displaying new works produced especially on the occasion of the exhibition at FRAMED Berlin. His pieces, the result of his work with paper, salt, volumes, and light, video, and environment installations, will investigate the availability of the materials, their possible translation into bi-dimensional works, and the use of an immersive approach delivered by the use of various media.

The exhibition will present pieces that are a witness to the process in which Guy uses light, shapes, and forms to deliver an alternate signifier to the public by involving the viewer in an interactive visual experience. The exhibited works, part of a completely new production, will introduce the work of one of the most promising Israeli artists working in the frame of the international and European art scene.