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Ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar. - Jack Ox is particularly careful about the transformation of text and music, so that its visual equivalent might represent all sound nuances as objectively as possible. Following the rules Jackie Ox sets down, music takes on a visual form, while arbitrary decisions of the artist play only a marginal role in that process. She has developed systematic use of metaphors, thereby also contributing to the meaning in a poetic way. In this way Jack Ox translated into the language of painting numerous musical works, from Gregorian chants to the dadaist Ursonate by Kurt Schwitters. Our exhibition presents fragments of the 8th Symphony in C-minor by Anton Bruckner and the said Ursonate which undoubtedly belongs to her best works. The piece, composed in the years 1922-1932, for a long time was considered lost - only its text and small musical fragments were known. Having searched for the original recording for many years, Ox finally found it and persuaded the Wergo record company to publish it. A CD recording of Schwitters' work forms the musical background of our exhibition which - not counting the visual version of Ursonate - includes also drawings (Merzbau, among others), whose specially treated and prepared fragments served as basic elements of visual images. The last work of the exhibition is the artist's most recent multi-media creation, called Color Organ, which integrally links virtual reality with music composed exclusively for this purpose. ISBN 838793724X