Sound from the inaudible

Chelpa Ferro
Visual Sound

Chelpa Ferro is a Brazilian collective comprised of artists Barrão, Luiz Zerbini, and Sergio Mekler that was formed in 1995. Already independently renowned, they got together under the umbrella “Chelpa Ferro”—Portuguese slang for money and steel—with the objective of doing some leisurely experimentation outside the constraints of their primary individual art careers.

‘Chelpa Ferro’s first US exhibition will bring their fresh, somewhat chaotic, and savvy interdisciplinary approach to objects that they transform into animate sculptures and sound-creating devices to The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum on June 26, 2011.’

I love the idea of extracting creativity from objects in ways that are not immediately apparent.

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