Nicole Six/Paul Petritsch
dal 20/7/2006 al 23/9/2006
Segnalato da
20/7/2006
Nicole Six/Paul Petritsch
GAK Gesellschaft fur Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen
The Austrian artist duo explore and measure the world around them with the aid of concrete experiments. In their videos and photographs, Six/Petritsch place themselves and the spectators in situations in which the meaningfulness of what they do is challenged.
Videos and photographs
Curated by Gabriele Mackert
The Austrian artist duo Nicole Six and Paul Petritsch explore and measure the world
around them with the aid of concrete experiments.
Over the years, their test
arrangements-which at times border on the absurd-have led to an archive of poetic
parables on man’s exposure to uncertainties within space.
This “archive" is
concerned with the testing of limits and, possibly, the overcoming of limitations;
with confronting the fear of falling; with not trying to escape when the ground
disappears beneath one; with throwing oneself into the wind; with fighting fatigue,
but also, simply and radically, with dismissing established parameters such as
gravity as a law of nature. In short: with putting to the test the security of space
so familiar to us in everyday life and, in the process, disconcerting the body
itself on an existential level.
Again and again in their videos and photographs, Six/Petritsch place themselves and
the spectators in situations in which the meaningfulness of what they do is
challenged. In deliberately provoked extreme situations, they make actions and
perceptions appear doomed to failure while, at the same time, the rooms and the way
they are perceived change fundamentally. In the video “Raum" (2004)(“Space"), for
instance, the protagonist must not only constantly re-adjust to the changing
constellations above and below her.
What was once firmly established as “below" is
now turned on end so that the figure is able-or so it would seem-to overcome the
force of gravity. The logic of the film turns real movement around, thus, in turn,
undermining the meaning of the images in almost carnivalesque fashion. And: The
reversed images of the camera also have an effect on the way the viewers find their
corporal and spatial orientation, and ultimately on how they respond to the
projection and the de
pictions of movement.
The video then becomes a balancing act not only for the
protagonist but for the viewers as well.
The exhibition in the GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst Bremen is the first
solo exhibition of Nicole Six (b. 1971) and Paul Petritsch (b. 1968). They live in
Vienna and have been working together since 1997.
Programme:
Stabil/Fragil. Die architektonisch-psychologischen Konstrukte von Six/Petritsch
(“Stabile/Fragile. The architectural-psychological constructs of Six/Petritsch")
Sunday, 3rd September 2006, 4 p.m.
Lecture by Doris Krystof, Curator, K 21 Kunstsammlung NRW, Dusseldorf
Artist Talk
Sunday, 24st September 2006, 4 p.m.
with Nicole Six and Paul Petritsch
Opening: Thu, 20th July 2006, 8 p.m.
GAK
Teerhof 21- Bremen
Opening hours: Tue-Sun 11a.m. -6 p.m., Thu -9.m., Mon closed