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5/3/2008

Two exhibitions

Christine Konig Galerie, Wien

born 1947 in Schwarzach im Pongau, lives and works in Vienna.

Numerous exhibitions e.g.: Secession Vienna, Galerie Faber Vienna, Pratt Institut New York, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Steirischer Herbst Graz, Fotogalerie Vienna, Fotohof Salzburg, Architekturgalerie Berlin, Technisches Museum Vienna, Architekturgalerie Luzern, Galerie Dittmar Berlin, Architectural Association London, Arqueria de Nuevos Ministerios Madrid, Architekturzentrum Vienna.

Kunst Dokumente shows Margherita Spiluttini´s subtle view on works of different artists in different spaces. No representation, rather mere documents of rooms, situations, photographed in passing.

„Let us assume that we are not dealing with two different realities in photography, but only with one which merely invades our brain through the retina from two different positions. It would be conceivable that the retinal image makes less of a difference between the original and its representation than we might imagine. Even a switch of realities, a mix-up, an exchange of identities would be conceivable, such as a photo which more closely reflects the reality of the original than any accidental retinal image of the original. How else would it be conceivable that people come to see things only after they have been photographed? How else would it be possible for photography to continually conquer new areas, or views, of reality? – It is, then, that the good photographer is a deceiver, a reality monger?“
Friedrich Achleitner, from: über das Abbild und das Abgebildete, Vienna 1985 and 2007

Third Room: Jacqueline Chanton
born 1957 in Luzern, lives and works in Vienna. Trained in Restoration at Kunstgewerbeschule Bern, Studies of Painting and Sculpture in Luzern and under Bruno Gironcoli, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

Numerous exhibitions e.g.: Scharfes Auge, Christine König Galerie, Vienna; Follow the leader, Projekt Ines Doujak, Secession, Vienna and MACBA, Barcelona; Witte de With, Rotterdam; Tiere in der Großstadt, Museum Hermesvilla Vienna; Phantom der Lust, Neue Galerie Graz; Inside Outside, Neue Galerie Studio, Graz.

„You have to aim at developing a distinctive style and authenticity if you want to get somewhere, this is what critics often demand from artists. History sustains this theory. If you look at a painting by Andy Warhol or a sculpture by Alberto Giacometti, people refer to it as "a Warhol" or "a Giacometti". At this moment, the artwork becomes the representative of the artist. If additionally there is a portrait of the artist himself, one obtains two representatives of one person. You could talk about a heraldic and a natural image now. By now, when the name "Warhol" comes up, people think of the countless icons of Pop-Art. Also Picasso's blue-and-white striped t-shirt is nearly as famous and on the spot as his Le Demoiselles d'Avignon. Jacqueline Chanton shows both, her painted portrait of the artist and also his work painted by her. She proves the fact that we live in the midst of images.

The photographical portraits of various artists can be seen as a part of mass culture – as mass pictures/images. Because of their almost inflationary use, in comparison to real artworks, they turned into icons themselves. Hence Chanton’s work is an examination of a very present fact, namely the change within the culture of images/pictures. The actual artwork and the photo portrait of the artist who made it, converge. The trivial and mass cultural field of image creation expands more and more. With the invention of “image machines“ a procedure was opened, which philosophers like Günther Anders or Jean Baudrillard hold responsible for the fact that the world became an image. Jacqueline Chanton seems to show this in an elementary way. Today "a Picasso" is both, a painting and the artist himself, both are images for us.“
Günther Holler-Schuster, 2007

Opening: 6th March 2008, 7 - 9 p.m.

Christine Konig Galerie
Schleifmuhlgasse 1A - Vienna
Free admission

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