Martin Bilinovac
dal 27/2/2011 al 1/4/2011
Segnalato da
27/2/2011
Martin Bilinovac
Fotogalerie Wien, Wien
Under the title Exposure, Martin Bilinovac presents an overview of his works from 2009 to 2011. The exhibited photographs show interiors - spaces void of human presence, in which the furnishings have been arranged in somewhat surreal constellations. The photographs investigate the relationship between space and perception, between thing and human being.
Introduction by Jakob Neulinger
The FOTOGALERIE WIEN began the annual program in 2010 with a new exhibition format
with the title SOLO. This new series of exhibitions dedicates one of the eight
yearly exhibitions as a solo exhibition to a young emerging artist. It is to serve
as a platform and springboard to artists who are at the beginning of their career,
yet who already have an extensive body of work that can be presented to a broader
public. The goal is to stimulate lasting awareness about the artist and his or her
works. This includes our efforts to promote future SOLO exhibitions in cooperation
with various institutions both nationally and internationally.
The second exhibition in this series, SOLO II, is dedicated to the works of artist
Martin Bilinovac, born 1981 in Graz, currently living and working in Vienna and
Linz. Bilinovac studied at the School for Artistic Photography Vienna (Friedl
Kubelka), the University of Applied Arts Vienna, and the Academy of Fine Arts
Münster.
Under the title Exposure, Martin Bilinovac presents an overview of his works from
2009 to 2011 at the FOTOGALERIE WIEN. The exhibited photographs show interiors –
spaces void of human presence, in which the furnishings have been arranged in
somewhat surreal constellations. The photographs investigate the relationship
between space and perception, between thing and human being. Bilinovac’s spaces are
set in generally strict, often symmetrical compositions and present objects in
frontal directness, which at first glance refers to the immediacy of a snapshot. Yet
after taking a closer look, the images have an unsettling effect – for example, when
looking at a door barricaded with mattresses, the doorpost frames the scene serving
as a second frame in the image, resulting on the one hand in a closed picture in
picture, and on the other hand in the viewer’s detachment from reality.
Consequently, Bilinovac succeeds in allowing the specific characteristics of
photography to become apparent.
“We seek the absolute everywhere and only ever find things”, wrote German poet
Novalis. To fathom the essence of things means to come ever closer to the “truth”.
When a thing is taken from its original (functional) context or from our
preconditioned sense of order and is placed in a different framework (for example,
into art as with Bilinovac), its meaning expands, through altered reality, beyond
its mere appearance and offers the occasion for intellectual contemplation.
Photography, as a medium between being and appearing, gains a particular
significance. In his works, Bilinovac explores the zones between reality and
imagination, between the visible and the invisible all the while allowing us room
for our own interpretations.
Opening: Monday, 28 February at 7 p.m.
Fotogalerie Wien
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