16/6/2011
Chris Larson / Dierk Maass
The view, Salenstein
For the historic water reservoir, one of the four venues of The View, Larson developed a new video work named Heavy Rotation. The film sets reach over three rooms lying on top of each other in a not nearer defined architecture. 'Incident of Light' shows images from a world in which the human being no longer - or not yet - exists. The photographs Dierk Maass brought along from trips all over the world, deal with emptiness, with solitude, with originality, with barren purity and rough beauty.
Chris Larson
Heavy Rotation
THE VIEW, an exceptional new space for contemporary art at the Swiss side of Lake Constance, dedicates this second exhibition project to the American artist CHRIS LARSON, who has become internationally known through the construction of monumental wooden machines and his surreal video narrations. For the historic water reservoir, one of the four venues of THE VIEW, Chris Larson developed a new video work named HEAVY ROTATION. The protagonist of Heavy Rotation is the artist himself. The film sets, invented and built by Chris Larson, reach over three rooms lying on top of each other in a not nearer defined architecture.
Through the eye of the camera the spectator looks into the studio of the artist, who continuously draws circles onto paper by following the rotation of a turntable. With great vehemence and obsessive absent-mindedness the movement is continuously repeated and at the end leads to a perforation of paper and base. Chris Larson climbs through the created hole into the room below and restarts with his Sisyphus work. THE VIEW also presents the films Crush Collision and Deep North. Photographs, drawings and sceneries of film sets give an extensive insight view of the manifold artwork of Chris Larson, who was born 1966 in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Chris Larsons work has been presented for example at Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg, Nationalgalerie Berlin, The Walker Art Center, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Video Section at Art Basel and currently at the Wiener Festwochen. Chris Larson comments in his art industrial production methods and visually falls back onto archaic images. He confronts us with inexplicable processes and thwarts the rhetoric of our information age with its emphasis on productivity, efficiency and rationality.
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Dierk Maass
Incident of Light shows
Incident of Light shows images from a world in which the human being no longer – or not yet – exists. The photographs Dierk Maass brought along from trips all over the world, deal with emptiness, with solitude, with originality, with barren purity and rough beauty. Karstic expanse of snow, bare rock faces, withered tree skeletons, seemingly infinite spaces and edge shaped heights. Undiscovered, difficult-to-access regions, which lay open their attractions only to the one, who with effort is able to reach them: the red hot plateaux of the Andes, the dramatic eight thousand meter peaks of the Himalayas, steppes and deserts of North Africa.
Dierk Maass has been occupied with photography for more than 30 years. His camera captures what he has encountered during his spectacular tours: overwhelming spectacles of nature, transcendental colours, magnificent formations. Experiences and impressions that are only possible with this tight and immediate contact with the landscape. Dierk Maass doesn’t photograph postcard pictures. He dissects the landscapes and lets them fade in radiant light by long exposure time. His photographs witness of an enthusiasm with geometry, with contours, with lines and with the intoxicating power of light as appearance, incident and failure at the same time.
THE VIEW Contemporary Art Space is a new platform for contemporary art and experimental exhibition forms. At exposed locations above the Swiss side of Lake Constance, three subterranean exhibition rooms and a studio gallery will offer a profound insight into international contemporary art once a year. Actual positions on the themes of space, light, sound, photography, media art and moving pictures will be focused.
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Press Conference : Friday, June 17th,11am
Preview : Friday, June 17th, 5pm - 9pm
Opening : Saturday, June 18th, 12am – 10pm
THE VIEW
Fruthwilerstrasse 14 CH-8268 Salenstein
hours: Saturday & Sunday, 2 - 7pm and by appointment