Evasive Action
dal 13/11/2007 al 21/12/2007
Segnalato da
Volker Eichelmann
Christian Frosi
Mani Hammer
Marzena Nowak
Mandla Reuter
Florian Schmidt
13/11/2007
Evasive Action
Galerie Andreas Huber (old location), Wien
All artists on show refer to a performative mobility of production's aesthetics which can be described with the ethnological term of displacement activities: a mode of action which is receptively conceived as odd, unexpected, as it appears outside a linkage of behaviour within which it served an immediate aim.
Group show
Volker Eichelmann, Christian Frosi, Mani Hammer, Marzena Nowak, Mandla Reuter, Florian Schmidt
With the exhibition "evasive action", Galerie Andreas Huber presents works from
international artists working in different ways with strategies of appropriation,
not rarely leaving behind formal irritations in doing so. They all refer to a
performative mobility of production's aesthetics which can be described with the
ethnological term of displacement activities: a mode of action which is receptively
conceived as odd, unexpected, as it appears outside a linkage of behaviour within
which it served an immediate aim.
This gesture allows new references with which the relationship towards media as well
as sculpture or painting, however ultimately also towards art history can be newly
treated.
In her small works on paper, Berlin-based artist Mani Hammer (born 1970) shows
various imagery worlds oscillating between cosmology and constructivism which defy
the great promises of modernity, and appear as sketches of an imaginary path leading
into an other, possibly long-gone world.
Volker Eichelmann's (born 1973, lives in London) collages are part of a general
analysis of artistic production methods. In a playful manner, they push the borders
between formal interests and information aesthetics.
The abstract networks of lines of the Polish artist Marzena Nowak (born 1977 in
Warsaw) are paper patterns of remnants transferred onto canvas. By means of this
production's aesthetics, the artist subverts the fragility and audacity of forms of
abstraction commonly categorised as sublime or avant-garde.
Florian Schmidt's (born 1980, lives in Vienna) drawings and sculptures unite
fragmented aspects of modern art history in abstract narrations. Knowing their
paragons, they indicate a range of variations of statics and movement, abstraction
and realism, gesture and border, geometry and organics.
The installations and works of Mandla Reuter (born 1975 in Nqutu / South Africa)
introduce modified perceptive layers of space, and in doing so create places which
make the viewer feel uncanny what exactly she or he is in fact looking at.
Christian Frosi (born 1973 in Milan) presents surprising and subtle video works and
installations in which he deals with ideas such as the subject, quality, the public
and formal progress, and their reciprocal dependencies.
Image: Volker Eichelmann
Opening: Wednesday, November 14th 2007 7 pm - 10 pm
Galerie Andreas Huber
Capistrangrasse, 3 - Wien
Free admission
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