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23/2/2011

Ines Lombardi - Christoph Meier - Alfons Egger

Wiener Secession, Wien

INÉS LOMBARDI
Past Present – Close and Distant

Inés Lombardi's repertoire includes photographs, videos, and installations as well as sculptures and objects. The point of departure for her multifaceted oeuvre is the assumption that human perception, far from being absolute, is a process that is subject to constant change. The artist probes the conditions under which a perceptive displacement can take place, and how such a shift can reveal the construction of reality. Of central importance in this context are questions immanent to art regarding presentation and representation.

By repeatedly breaking with the various visual levels that define her work, Lombardi not only generates a series of references that can be continued ad infinitum, she also creates chains of associations that are open to rearrangement and interpretative extension. That is especially evident when, in a self-reflective move, she takes up individual aspects from earlier works and presents them in new variations: as an object, as a photograph of the object, or as a photograph of the object in a spatial situation also shown in the photographic representation of the object. This feedback mechanism and the recurrent break with it reveal the dynamism of perception in Inés Lombardi's works: for condensation and interconnectedness can give rise to innovation.

Inés Lombardi, b. São Paulo (BR) 1958, lives and works in Vienna (AT).

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CHRISTOPH MEIER

Christoph Meier's art focuses on the performative and narrative potentials of his media. The 35mm film Filmsetperformancebühnefilm ( Filmsetperformancestagefilm , 2009), for instance, shows a crew, unaided by any script, filming itself during work on a film production. In the work, which was realized during Meier's final examination at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, both the actors and the examination committee become self-observing elements in the filmic action. In his installations and sculptural arrangements, Meier uses photography equipment, presentation furniture, byproducts of creative processes discarded by fellow artists, and everyday objects, rearranging these elements, divorced from their original contexts, in open compositions.

The installation Setting #17 (2010) consists of an arrangement of five different projectors; their individual images combine to create a complete picture whose painterly quality derives from the different color temperatures of the projectors. The situations Meier fashions and stages are defined, on the one hand, by the self-referential aspect of a geometric and abstract formal vocabulary; on the other hand, the objects he uses make them appear to be representations of a plot. On several occasions, Meier opened the performative work with his objects to viewers, allowing them to participate in the creative process and his artistic method.

Christoph Meier, b. Vienna (AT) 1980, lives and works in Vienna (AT).

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ALFONS EGGER

Drawings between Dadaism and concrete poetry, transgressive performances, and interventions aiming to create a sense of community—these elements are constants in Alfons Egger's oeuvre, as are suggestive dream-images and fictional characters. At a time when the performative potential of the stage is once again gaining ground in spaces dedicated to the visual arts, his is an early position that has positively been waiting to articulate itself afresh. Alfons Egger's work is distinguished by its high degree of complexity and the dense use of media. Since the early 1970s, the artist has worked with fragments from everyday life, which he interweaves with elements of his own biography to create a system of references that challenges the beholder in forever new ways—an effect to which the openness of his work to various interpretations contributes as well.

Creating oversized letters out of foamed plastic, he installs formulae such as NUR SCHAUEN (JUST LOOK, 2006) in various spatial situations: be it in a department store about to undergo renovation, where the work suggests the idea of a restriction on consumerism; be it in a booth at an art fair, where the string of letters aims at questions immanent to art about the perception of images. For the exhibition in the Secession's Grafisches Kabinett, Alfons Egger is developing a space-specific installation, confronting beholders with an ephemeral verbal donation that, on a conscious as well as an unconscious level, once again underlines the state of subtle suspension characteristic of his creative production.

Alfons Egger, b. Haiming (AT) 1952, lives and works in Vienna.

For further information
Pia Leydolt
Friedrichstraße 12, A-1010 Wien
T.+43-1-587 53 07-10, F.+43-1-587 53 07-34
presse@secession.at

Image: Inés Lombardi

Press conference: Thursday, February 24, 2011, 10 a.m.
Opening: Thursday, February 24, 2011 - 7pm

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