Kerstin Cmelka

Kunsthalle 8, Wien

The exhibition series unites exemplary works of four artists who create 'Suspense' in various ways. During the selection it has been important to take into account the origin of this term from the medium of film and simultaneously emphasize it as an important element of visual art. Kerstin Cmelka's experimental film 'hallowe'en' realizes the demand for 'Suspense' on all levels: From the formal, in its constitution 'exciting' experiment of a film in three parts, which is entirely vertically arranged inside the camera and has been filmed at various speed levels and times of the day, the strange plot develops a very strong thematic intensity.

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KERSTIN CMELKA
curated by ANDREA WINKLBAUER

EXHIBITION SERIES SUSPENSE :
SEPTEMBER 2003 to DECEMBER 2004

The first part of the exhibitions within this series is curated by Andrea Winklbauer (critic, curator, Vienna). She detected various forms of Suspense in the works of Siegfried A. Fruhauf (A), Gabriele Steidinger (D), Kerstin Cmelka (A) and Nives Widauer (CH).

In succession, the exhibitions will feature artists and curators from Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Italy, and Switzerland.

ANDREA WINKLBAUER on the theme of SUSPENSE:
"Suspense" is known from the area of film. With this term, its master, Alfred Hitchcock, defined the basic tension, which he triggered through skilled manipulation. In Hitchcock's films, "Suspense" develops its own poetry, the poetry of a major artwork.

If you examine works of visual art with regard to this phenomenon, you will find an interesting pattern: "Suspense" can always be located where the artistic concept is fulfilled, when the work reaches an intensity from which it is impossible to withdraw. Suspense is not a narrative stance. Simliar to Hitchcock, the artist has to be able to trigger an effect in the spectator, which surpasses the mere perception of the artwork. "Suspense" is an intensity of that kind. It is not necessarily required that the content of a work equals this tension.

The exhibition series unites exemplary works of four artists who create "Suspense" in various ways. During the selection it has been important to take into account the origin of this term from the medium of film and simultaneously emphasize it as an important element of visual art.

Kerstin Cmelka's experimental film "hallowe'en" realizes the demand for "Suspense" on all levels: From the formal, in its constitution "exciting" experiment of a film in three parts, which is entirely vertically arranged inside the camera and has been filmed at various speed levels and times of the day, the strange plot develops a very strong thematic intensity. "Hallowe'en" is also the name of the sailing ship anchored at the mole, which you can see.

Kerstin Cmelka: short cv
Borne 1974 in MÃ¶dling, Lower Austria. Studies since 1999 at the StÃ¤delschule Frankfurt / Main. Participation in various exhibitions, a.o. 2003 in Vienna in the exhibition "EinfÃ¤lle und AbfÃ¤lle. Bilder aus der Filmarbeit" at IG Bildende Kunst. Lives in Frankfurt.

Image: With me

OPENING: Wed, 25 Feb. 2004, 19.00

Next event in the SUSPENSE series:
SUSPENSE 04: Nives Widauer
10. 03. 04, 19.00 r
11. 03. 04 20. 03. 04

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