Constantin Luser
dal 13/9/2006 al 3/11/2006
Segnalato da
13/9/2006
Constantin Luser
Christine Koenig Galerie, Wien
Luser uses drawing as an instrument to rapidly signify some of the visual material he has seen throughout his adult life, data collected to be output in room size gallery installations.
Panoptikum
Exhibition opening together with the galleries Georg Kargl, Engholm Engelhorn,
Gabriele Senn, Lisa Ruyter and Generali Foundation
born 1976 in Graz, lives and works in Graz and Vienna.
Studies: FH Industrial Design, Graz; University of Applied Arts Vienna; Academy of
Fine Arts Vienna.
Solo exhibitions (Selection): Austrian Cultural Forum, London (2006); Galerie
staubkohler, Zurich (2005); Arbeiterkammer Vienna; 4/4 kunst bei wittmann, Vienna
(2004); Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin; Christine Konig Galerie, Vienna (2003).
Group exhibitions (Selection): Steirischer Herbst 2006, Graz; Volkertplatz/Kunst im
offentlichen Raum Vienna; medialab, Madrid (2006); Museo de Arte Contempora'neo
(MAC), Santiago, Chile; Neue Galerie, Graz; Project Art Centre, Dublin; Couvent des
Cordeliers, Muse'e d´Art Modern de la Ville de Paris; 1. Moscow Biennale of
Contemporary Art, Moscow (2005); attitudes - espace d'arts contemporains, Geneva
(2004); Secession, Vienna (2003).
“Looking at a drawing by Constantin Luser can affect subjective qualities of
perception. His diagrammatic style presents the viewer with an intoxicating network
of lines and shapes that make these drawings difficult to view from a distance. In
order to inspect them you must advance and retreat at multiple points, engaging with
every fragment, that shifts with each movement of the eyes. (...)
Luser uses drawing as an instrument to rapidly signify some of the visual material
he has seen throughout his adult life, data collected to be output in room size
gallery installations. He tries to make sense of the visual material consumed each
day recycling lines created by things like network cables, window frames, aerials,
light switches, power buttons, telecommunication masts. Lines and shapes made from
the micro and macro technologies of modern life.
Together they produce a map of an
imagined domain for the viewer that challenge our perception of what is made visible
and what is made invisible in society. The drawings pulsate with different content,
and offer several possible interpretations at the same time. Luser is interested in
this perceptual process - what and how we see things - he believes by focusing on
these simple lines a number of complex images can be revealed. (...) Frequently
included in these installations, alongside the drawings are freestanding objects.
(...) They consist of materials more easily identifiable, wood, brass, metal, and
plastic. (...) These three dimensional devices help us to see a parallel world made
up of thousands of these objects as illustrated in the drawing. Their presence
affects our view of the room and of the drawing - if this object has spiraled out of
two dimensions into three, then the world on the wall must be vast.“
Opening: Thursday, September 14, 2006, 6 - 8 p.m.
Christine Koenig Galerie
Schleifmuehlgasse 1A - Wien