Werner Feiersinger
dal 19/1/2005 al 5/3/2005
Segnalato da
19/1/2005
Werner Feiersinger
Galerie Martin Janda, Wien
The artist returns to everyday objects as a source for his work, yet sheds their direct recognizability for other potential interpretations: associations with modern architecture, models, design objects and sculpture create additional references and liberate the objects from direct classification.
Solo show.
Werner Feiersinger, in his third solo exhibition at Galerie Martin Janda, is showing sculpture and photography which he completed in 2004.
On the ground floor a spider-like object links the two rooms. It is made up of two intermingling steel-plate constructions, primed in white, which bracket the gallery’s center wall. Next to this large open structure stands a monochromatically primed compact object. The sculpture appears, on the one hand, to be a typographical symbol transposed into the third dimension, and on the other hand, its form recalls two marquise cross-sections mounted one atop the other.
Once again, Werner Feiersinger returns to everyday objects as a source for his work, yet sheds their direct and unequivocal recognizability for other potential interpretations: associations with modern architecture, models, design objects and sculpture create additional references and liberate the objects from direct classification.
For many years Feiersinger has worked in the medium of photography. For his solo exhibition at Freespace Z33 in Hasselt (BE) in 2004 he showed photography and sculpture together for the first time. Werner Feiersinger’s new photos are founded upon his ongoing research into Le Corbusier’s architecture. He does not focus, however, solely on the monumental buildings, but zeroes in on the specific sculptural solutions in and on these buildings. In his exhibition at Galerie Martin Janda in 2001, the heavy gray sculpture Stein (Stone, steel, primed, 1999) referred to an odd object on the roof of the Unité d’Habitation in Marseille of 1957; in his new works Feiersinger addresses more directly unnoticed details of the architect’s oeuvre. The Stern (Star, wood, primed, 2004) quotes a further object located on the Unité d’Habitation’s roof. Situated in the upper level of the gallery, Feiersinger’s sculpture dissipates the heavy materiality of the poured-concrete original and disjunctures its content by isolating the object in a new context. Feiersinger explores a hybrid made up of architectural detail, functional object, and playful system of signs, in terms of its purely sculptural value. He does not merely duplicate, but intervenes as well – cutting short the analytical process in favor of sculptural presence.
Image: Werner Feiersinger, Untitled, 2004
Opening: January 20 at 7:00 pm
Galerie Martin Janda
Raum aktueller Kunst
Eschenbachgasse 11 A-1010 Wien
Opening hours: Tue-Fri 1 - 6 p.m., Sat 11 a.m. - 3 p.m.