Alois Kronschlager
dal 1/3/2006 al 24/3/2006
Segnalato da
1/3/2006
Alois Kronschlager
Plus Ultra Gallery, New York
Repercussions: A Series of Surprisingly Divisive Events. A site-specific installation and a striking new series of wall sculptures. Kronschlager continues his ongoing exploration in representing time and space via geometry. He has developed a hand-made process for recording a complex series of events and actions within curvilinear space.
Repercussions: A Series of Surprisingly Divisive Events
Plus Ultra Gallery is extremely pleased to inaugurate our new
location with Repercussions: A Series of Surprisingly Divisive Events, the first New
York solo exhibition by Austrian-born artist Alois Kronschlager. With a
site-specific installation and a striking new series of wall sculptures,
Kronschlager continues his ongoing exploration in representing time and space via
geometry. In contrast to the multitude of artists, architects and designers engaged
in digital investigations of this topic, Kronschlager has developed a hand-made
process for recording a complex series of events and actions within curvilinear
space. The resulting sculptures constitute frozen points in time within these
complex narratives, presented as a composition for the viewer's consideration.
To prepare his sculptures, which playfully reference the early pinstripe paintings
of Frank Stella, Kronschlager lines sheets of archival paper with a latex caulk.
These evenly spaced lines then serve as measures for recording the pending
actions--crunching, pinching, folding, crinkling, etc.--that impact the pictorial
plane. Kronschlager then sets the chosen compositions with a polystyrene base.
Unlike earlier explorations with shaped or slashed canvases, however, these pieces
maintain the integrity of their original plane's vertical and horizontal limits,
even as the caulk lines emphasize both the beat of the actions and the topographical
aspects of the now three-dimensional space they occupy.
The shift in scale in his site-specific installations takes Kronschlager's approach
one step further in that he blurs the line between objects and construction, between
space and applied artifact. By using the gallery's planes to emphasize the resulting
negative space around his intricate surfaces, his large installations underline the
progression into multi-dimensionality within his process.
Opening Reception: March 2, 6-8 pm
Plus Ultra Gallery
637 West 27th Street, Suite A - New York
Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 11am to 6pm or by appointment