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9/3/2004

Suspense 04

Kunsthalle 8, Wien

NIVES WIDAUER
curated by ANDREA WINKLBAUER

EXHIBITION SERIES SUSPENSE : SEPTEMBER 2003 to DECEMBER 2004

The first part of the exhibitions within this series is curated by Andrea Winklbauer (critic, curator, Vienna). She detected various forms of Suspense in the works of Siegfried A. Fruhauf (A), Gabriele Steidinger (D), Kerstin Cmelka (A) and Nives Widauer (CH).

In succession, the exhibitions will feature artists and curators from Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Italy, and Switzerland.

ANDREA WINKLBAUER on the theme of SUSPENSE:

"Suspense" is known from the area of film. With this term, its master, Alfred Hitchcock, defined the basic tension, which he triggered through skilled manipulation. In Hitchcock's films, "Suspense" develops its own poetry, the poetry of a major artwork.

If you examine works of visual art with regard to this phenomenon, you will find an interesting pattern: "Suspense" can always be located where the artistic concept is fulfilled, when the work reaches an intensity from which it is impossible to withdraw. Suspense is not a narrative stance. Simliar to Hitchcock, the artist has to be able to trigger an effect in the spectator, which surpasses the mere perception of the artwork. "Suspense" is an intensity of that kind. It is not necessarily required that the content of a work equals this tension.

The exhibition series unites exemplary works of four artists who create "Suspense" in various ways. During the selection it has been important to take into account the origin of this term from the medium of film and simultaneously emphasize it as an important element of visual art.

Nives Widauer's photography of moon shaded landscapes was taken with an analogue camera in full moon nights, without digital post-processing. They show a phenomenon of nature that is not visible to the naked eye. The picture's suspense emerges from the tension between the ideas of Romanticism – connected to the night, the moon and their secrets – and their visualisation and aesthetisation with the camera.

Nives Widauer: short biography
Born 1965 in Basel (Switzerland). Studies on History and Art History at the Basel University. From 1987 studies at the School of Design in Basel. Travel to Japan, Australia and the South Pacific. Various single and group exhibitions. Installations for theatre sets. Nives Widauer lives in Basel and Vienna (Austria).

In the image a frame from 'pipe dreams' 2002.

OPENING: Wed, 10 March 2004, 19.00

Andrea Winklbauer
Leitgebgasse 11/15
1050 Wien
+43-(0)699-19 13 68 69

Kunsthalle 8
schadekgasse 6-8
Wien

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