Adriana Czernin
dal 12/9/2002 al 19/10/2002
Segnalato da
12/9/2002
Adriana Czernin
Galerie Martin Janda, Wien
She is showing videos and large format drawings. Her intensive work with the moving image has further developed her treatment of the two and three-dimensional in her new drawings. The artist continually combines a seriousness of treatment with a twinkle of the eye in order to convert the oppressive action into something paradoxically absurd.
In her video work "Dandelion" we see Adriana Czernin standing in a meadow.
Taking deliberate steps, she is trying to crush the yellow dandelion flowers
underfoot. This action makes it possible to experience the depth of space of the
originally flat and two-dimensional meadow, the edges of the picture are its chosen boundaries. What
is only hinted at in Czernin's drawings becomes a significant element in the
film: her humorous treatment of the theme and one's own seriousness.
The overlaying of social and psychological processes and the preoccupation with
traditional female patterns of behaviour are central aspects of the work of
Adriana Czernin. The artist continually combines a seriousness of treatment with
a twinkle of the eye in order to convert the oppressive action into something
paradoxically absurd.
Adriana Czernin is showing videos and large format drawings in her second solo
show at the Galerie Martin Janda. Her intensive work with the moving image has
further developed her treatment of the two- and three-dimensional in her new
drawings.
In search of a certain quality of the ornamental, aesthetic strategies of
computer games are picked up and inserted in the composition as an element to
create as well as to transfigure space.
Born 1969 in Sofia, Bulgaria, the artist has lived in Vienna and Styria since
1990.
Important exhibitions:
2002 Uncommon Denominator / New Art From Vienna, Massachusetts Museum of
Contemporary Art (USA)
Adriana Czernin, Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna (A)
2001 Adriana Czernin, Raum aktueller Kunst, Vienna (A)
Adriana Czernin, Galerie Almut Gerber, Cologne (D)
2000 Wider Bild Gegen Wart, Raum Aktueller Kunst Martin Janda, Vienna (A)
Wider Bild Gegen Wart, NICC, Antwerp (kur. v. M. Janda), (NL)
Image: Adriana Czernin, o.T., 2002, Bleistift, Buntstift auf Papier, 157 x 230 cm
Exhibition: September 13th 2002 - October 19th 2002
Opening hours: Tue-Fri 1PM - 6PM & Sat 11AM - 3PM
Galerie Martin Janda Eschenbachgasse 11 A-1010 Vienna