Valentin Ruhry
dal 28/6/2010 al 30/7/2010
Segnalato da
28/6/2010
Valentin Ruhry
Christine Konig Galerie, Wien
'New Port Beach' is an installation composed of iron sections and fluorescent tubes. The first room presents an undulating light surface, a 'frozen wave' covering about 20 sq ms. On the opposite wall is a series of photographs displaying a particular progression of colour. For the series 'Im Zeichenraum' drawing by Andreas Karner.
To cite Claude Levi-Strauss, the engineer and the amateur constructor represent two completely different ways of behaving. For the engineer, there are only raw materials, which can be employed as desired, and disturbance factors, which are to be excluded. The amateur constructor may use waste material (also on a mental level) and fragments, which as it were bear witness to the history of the individual or to society. The amateur constructor does not begin with nothing, but he might perhaps accomplish a new combination of ready-mades. It is in this area that the artist Valentin Ruhry plays the role of someone legitimising a game, who in doing so endows it with greater scope and a meaningful context. (quot. Günther Holler-Schuster)
Newport Beach is a town on the Californian coast. In January 2010, an incidental snapshot was taken of a sunset over the Pacific. The special atmosphere and chromaticity of the light remind one of Caspar David Friedrich’s Mondaufgang über dem Meer (Moon Rising above the Sea). Since the volume of light also constitutes a sculptural material in the work of Valentin Ruhry, he took this photograph as the starting point for his new work New Port Beach.
New Port Beach is an installation composed of iron sections and fluorescent tubes. The first room presents an undulating light surface, a “frozen wave” covering about 20 sq ms. On the opposite wall is a series of photographs displaying a particular progression of colour, upon closer inspection of which one can see that it is always the same photograph mentioned above that is used, with two shades of colour overlayering it by means of various transparencies.
Valentin Ruhry was born in Graz in 1982, he lives and works in Vienna. He studied with Bernhard Leitner and Erwin Wurm at University of Applied Arts in Vienna and 2004 at Royal School of Arts in Oslo, Norway. He is teaching Media Art at HTBLA Ortweinschule in Graz.
Selected exhibitions: 2010 Wanted Found, Galerie Kon Temporär, Graz; Nothing is wrong if it feels good, Mike Potter Projects, Cologne; I think we have a good time, Tanzquartier Wien, Vienna; 2009 Welcome little Istanbul, Kunstraum Next Andrä, Graz; Text Bild MMIX, Steirischer Herbst, Graz; TOKIO ּ MOSKAU ּ WIEN ּ NEW YORK ּ BERLIN, Galerie Vujasin, Vienna; curated by_vienna 2009, Christine König Galerie, Vienna; Shame, Neue Galerie, Graz; Mira hat ein Handy und zwei Flügel, Galerie 5020, Salzburg; 2008 Vögel, Universität für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna; AUS EIN ANDER, Rondo, Graz; Project(or), Rotterdam, Netherlands; 2007 Vogel & Wald, Smallest Gallery, Graz; Peep Ateliers, Forum Stadtpark, Graz; Burn Baby, Burn! Kunstverein Ettlingen, Germany; 2006 Sei schnell oder stirb!, Agitas, Vienna; Sauna, dietheater Konzerthaus, Vienna; Empfehlungen, Kunstraum NOE, Vienna.
IM ZEICHENRAUM III
Andreas Karner: Der Mundgeruch des Teufels
A project by Tex Rubinowitz.
The new series Im Zeichenraum - originallly conceived by Tex Rubinowitz - will be inaugurated every last Saturday of the month at noon, in the gallery’s Third Room. Based on their thorough experience and singular approach on the medium drawing, Tex Rubinowitz (until July 2010) and Dan Perjvoschi (from September 2010) will present artists who work with drawing in their very own way.
Image: Valentin Ruhry, New Port Beach, 2009/2010, colour photography, alu laminated, 23 x 42,4 cm, series of 11 photographs. Courtesy Christine König Galerie, Vienna
Opening 29 June 2010, 7 pm
Christine Konig Galerie
Schleifmuhlgasse 1A, Wien
free admision