What do you get when you combine art, music and invention with humor, energy and ingenuity?

If you are Montreal’s Jean-Pierre Gauthier, you create complex sculptures that are enticing as both art and a riveting multisensory experience. Whether he uses electric wires and pipe fittings or a piano and microphones, Gauthier transforms everyday objects into moving, singing, almost-breathing organisms.

When Gauthier and his exhibit came to the Akron Art Museum in mid-September, Western Reserve PBS documented the exhibit’s installation. As part of the half-hour special, NewsNight Akron panelist Jody Miller interviewed Gauthier about his unique vision of art, sound, motion and space.

The exhibition makes its exclusive United States appearance at the Akron Art Museum from Sept. 27 to Jan. 4.

Funding for Jean-Pierre Gauthier: Machines at Play has been provided by the Summa Foundation.

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