Christie Contemporary is pleased to present A (silent) Concerto, an exhibition of new work by Jade Rude, opening Friday, November 22 and continuing until Saturday, December 21.

Jade Rude’s A (silent) Concerto derives its ontology from John Cage’s score fragment, Page 18, Solo for Piano, from Concert for Piano and Orchestra, precisely Cage’s graphic annotations which were braided through the concert score itself. Rude eyes theses hybrid musical diagrams as templates for sculpture, object articulations of the space between the composed notes. In making solid the void between sounds, there is a provocative material suggestion — and the viewer is invited to rearrange the sculptural elements — that these extruded delineations of notes’ coordinates could be repeatedly manipulated to form new compositions. Here, Jade Rude reveals her second alignment with Cage, coaxing a deliberate engagement with chance.

The installation comprises an articulated, acoustic tile wall, blank staves formed from stage tape, a low riser arranged with the inverse voids made solid, and a suite of eight photographs picturing each sculptural component activated.