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17/7/2000

artLab

artLab, Wien

An Initiative by SIEMENS ÖSTERREICH and GALERIE ERNST HILGER
Juan Loeck (ES), Silvano Tessarollo (I), Sebastian Weissenbacher (A) Sculptures

This is the first time that Juan Loeck is showing his Mickey Mouse project in Austria. For many years, he has been making Micky Mouses from crude-oil materials that are washed to the coast as environmental waste, giving them unconventional roles, such as Mickey Hamlet, Mickey Captain America. They are shown in groups, where they can develop all kinds of relationships.

Silvano Tessarollo also finds his themes in the world of comics. He builds up small interiors and populates them with figures of eccentric appearance. Tessarollo creates autonomous, self-contained small universes that admit no outside influence. The only link to the outside world are the reflecting large-scale Cibachrom photographs of these very groups of figures.

Sebastian Weissenbacher will present "honeycomb" - his new group of figures. Starting out with cardboard sculptures of cars, rabbits or ducks, he continuously enlarges the format of his works. In this case, two of his animal sculptures reach the formidable height of 1.80 meters. As the figures are painted in a bright pink color, they become extremely estranged from their original form.

All three artists have one thing in common - they work with forms and figures that are known from comics or animated cartoons, or surprise eggs. On account of the concomitant isolation and/or exaggeration of the individual artists, there is ample scope for cynical second thoughts - in other words, we become aware of a definitely critical approach.

For your information: The gallery will be closed from 1 to 20 August. The next exhibition opens on 24 August 2000 - Mikael Fagerlund, Adam Wiener.

Opening hours: Tuesdays to Fridays 12.00 - 18.00 hrs., Saturdays 10.00 - 13.00 hrs.

artLab
A-1010 Vienna, Dorotheergasse 12
Tel. 512 34 70

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