Poiesis
dal 8/11/2009 al 8/12/2009
Segnalato da
8/11/2009
Poiesis
Fotogalerie Wien, Wien
On show works by Michael Goldgruber, Michael Inmann and Heike Kaltenbrunner. The exhibition combines three contemporary artistic positions, whose works both capture and visually materialize the moment of the active search and discovery of the coincidental, like the poetic fusion of time and space. The photographic cut creates, so to speak, new worlds. Reference is made to the moment of medial transformation of a condition, and to such concentrated visual modifications when what "is" becomes something else.
The exhibition POIESIS combines three contemporary artistic positions, whose
works both capture and visually materialize the moment of the active search
and discovery of the coincidental, like the poetic fusion of time and space.
The photographic cut creates, so to speak, new worlds. Reference is made to
the moment of medial transformation of a condition, and to such concentrated
visual modifications when what "is" becomes something else.
Michael Goldgruber questions levels of observation and pre-formulated
perspectives of landscapes in the transfer to photographic image and
installation. The panorama view and the natural spectacle are seen alongside
the architecture of consumption. The guided view is intensified in his
artistic work resulting in experimental spaces of predetermined seeing.
"While people in fact take to constructions and apparatuses to admire the
view, what prevails in Goldgruber's videos is the abyss and concrete, the
paranoid babbles of voices and an eerie vastness. A smack of artificiality
is always mixed in with the enjoyment of apparently authentic perceptions of
nature." (Nora Dejaco)
Michael Inmann examines the transitional states of deserted spaces. In the
series left spaces, he captures the atmosphere of the void and of remnants
with diffuse focal planes in his large format photographs. Beyond mere
staging and by means of precise photographic settings, technology and
procedures, the black and white photographs produce an image of abandonment
in which realities of space begin to blur and a view of generalities is
guided to that of the more specific. "Emotions are the starting point here:
To begin with, I experience a space through emotion, through atmosphere. All
other rational perceptions always follow. The momentum of time becomes a
moment of space, the monument space becomes nothing other than pure
light-time (Licht-Zeit)." (Carl Aigner)
In Heike Kaltenbrunner's monitor/sound installation, Über das Leben und
Sterben von Neutronensternen und T.V. Geräten, the artist transmits acoustic
signals of pulsars to black and white televisions that have been converted
to function as oscilloscopes. The resulting visual signals are reminiscent
of the imagery of the universe. Through bundles of electron beams (or
cathode rays), the machines gradually destroy themselves, expiring with a
supernova. Together with sound and light, as well as the transformation of
signal into action, Kaltenbrunner explores the boundaries of the perceivable
and with the transfer of death, a common subject in Art History and Cultural
Anthropology, to a technological level. "Heike Kaltenbrunner's projects deal
with consciousness, contemplation, the relationship between cosmically
important and cosmically unimportant dimensions. With the cosmos as the main
theme for art." (Irina Tchmyreva)
Opening Monday, 9. November, 7pm
Fotogalerie Wien
Währinger Strasse 59/WUK, 1090 Vienna
Tu-fri 2-7pm, Sat 10am-2pm, closed on holidays
free admission