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17/7/2012

Three exhibitions

Salzburger Kunstverein - Kunstlerhaus, Salzburg

Yonamine
No Pain

Yonamine works with painting, drawing, graffiti, photography, video, and other media such as tattooing and brings them together in installations that fill entire rooms. As a whole, we might describe Yonamine’s works as diaries or even archeological research. He unites a series of situations that oscillate between the past, the present, and a possible future, offering a concept of time that escapes limitation. Like the language of a Reggae DJ, his work brings to mind the concept of rewinding, of a close tie to the past, while being based in the present.

The way he constructs his works (like a puzzle) and their process of random accumulation and fragmentation can tell us a great deal about our own situation, how we all have fragmented identities, like broken mirrors. Constantly versatile, fragile identities that are subjected to many different types of violence.

Yonamine is presenting a selection of his most important pieces from recent years at the Salzburger Kunstverein for the first time in Austria. He is also developing a large-scale installation for the Salzburger Kunstverein’s Main Hall.

Yonamine was born in Luanda, Angola, in 1975. He lives and works between Lisbon and Luanda. Initially due to the Angolan war, and nowadays according to his own will, Yonamine lived in constant move between Zaire (present Democratic Republic of Congo), Brazil, Angola, Portugal and the United Kingdom. He has participated in several international exhibitions, among them the 29ª Bienal de São Paulo, 2010; the 9. Sharjah Biennial, 2009; the 10. Havana Biennial, Kuba, 2009; „Transverse“, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno (CAAM), Las Palmas, 2008; „Check List Luanda Pop“, 52. Biennale di Venezia Biennale, Afrikanischer Pavillon, 2007; „Replica and Rebellion“, Museum of Modern Art of Bahia, Salvador, 2006.

Artist talk with Yonamine
Thursday, July 19, 2012, 8 p.m.

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Modes of Address
ORTung 2011

The “Modes of Address” exhibitions will present the results of the “ORTung 2011” artist symposium organized in Strobl every year by the state of Salzburg.

The relation between art, the site respectively the context of its production and presentation, as well as its public/beholder is a question inherent to art, and it has demanded increased attention since the 1960s at the latest. Artistic approaches, sites and possible modes of address and reference have been constantly re-defined, spaces for agency have been tested and extended.

Who is it, art is first and foremost addressed to, and how, in which way does this take place?
Does art primarily aim for the small international art scene, the “generic” beholder, a local public or a specific community? Which possible modes of reference to site and context are thinkable, which forms of interaction, involvement and participation can be developed?

These considerations gain special agency in the context of an Artists in Residence program such as the ORTung where seven international artists are invited every year to spend two weeks in the rural regions of the state of Salzburg, Austria. Whether the relative context and its inhabitants become the material of artistic intervention or whether they turn into co-agents: this varies from art project to art project; similarly, there is a wide array of possible forms of involvement and participation, be it collective actions following an artist’s choreography, be it incidentally induced interactions or be it artistic projects which set stage for models of participatory and communicative structures.

Following Michael Warner’s influential book Publics and Counterpublics (New York, 2002) one could also speak of various “Modes of Address.” The ORTung 2011 was dedicated to this topic and in doing so rendered itself into a testing field for different forms of artistic address and involvement.

Artists: Christian Falsnaes, Deniz Gül, Kathi Hofer, Christophe Katrib, Andrea Knobloch, Annelies Senfter, Anna Witt

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Ulrich Nausner
Limitation

As part of the exhibition series in CaféCult #55, Ulrich Nausner is showing a new piece from the Limitation series.

Ulrich Nausner transforms the space with a large-format, typographic wall installation from the Limitation series. The slightly adapted text from an Internet disclaimer addresses the issue of responsibility and questions the relationship of authorship and liability in the context of art.

The word “disclaimer” is used in Internet law to describe the refusal of responsibility. Disclaimers usually appear in fine print in e-mails and on websites. The term comes from the verb “to disclaim,” which means “deny” or “dispute.”

The disclaimer is subtly called into question with minimal intervention in the text – the artist’s and the Salzburger Kunstverein’s insertions – and a contextual shift from the website medium to a spatial installation. The magnification of the “fine print” satirizes the functionality of the disclaimer and draws the viewers’ attention to the seemingly paradoxical formulation of such texts that are almost never read in full. This intervention addresses the responsibility of society and the artist in the real context of a museum café.

A clear, sans-serif typography was chosen for the graphic design and attached to the wall with large plastic adhesive letters. In this way the installation resembles an exhibition text or the usual identification cards in museums and exhibition spaces. Only the size of the block of text (150 x 300 cm) changes the perceptual context and supports the intervention on a media level.

Ulrich Nausner, born in 1980 in Oberndorf, lives and works as a visual artist in Vienna. In his conceptual work and installations he uses different media to address patterns of perception and contexts of meaning of information and language. He studied visual arts / experimental design at the University of Art and Design in Linz from 2001-2006. His most recent exhibitions were the 2011 Branding the Unspoken in PS Artspace, Vienna and the 2010 Body of Thought in the Sign of Liberty Gallery, Berlin.
www.ulrichnausner.com

Image: Christian Falsnaes, The Whole Picture, 2011, performance, Reykjavik 2011, videostill

Press contact and information:
Michaela Lederer Communication and curatorial assistance T: +43 /662 /842294-15, F:+43 /662 /84229422 e-mail: lederer@salzburger-kunstverein.at

Press preview: Wednesday, July 18, 2012, 11 a.m.
Opening: Wednesday, July 18, 2012, 8 p.m.

Salzburger Kunstverein, Künstlerhaus
Hellbrunner Straße 3 5020 Salzburg Austria
Opening times exhibition: Tue–Sun noon to 7 p.m.

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