Chou Yu-Cheng
Chou specializes in the interplay between aesthetics and society. His works emphasize the working process behind visual aesthetics, with a focus on producing alternative modes of operation and thought within established mechanisms, and generating alternative, corresponding benefits through “atypical collaborations” which simultaneously disclose the problems of existing conditions. His artworks take various forms, wherein he often […]
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The work Visites Possibles (7:04 min, music: Roger Tellier-Craig) by Sabrina Ratté creates a contemporary illusionary space from the variation of an art-historical cognition. While the pulsating labyrinths seem reminiscent of early 3d graphics, they are actually composed from two-dimensional feedback loops of a video synthesizer. The choice of colours is oriented on the so […]
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In the Roaring Garden USA 2014 Based on the architectural outline of American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), the artist William Lamson built a floating blockhouse which acts as a camera obscura. Thoreau is widely known for the work Walden, or Life in the Woods, a diary of his two-year long escape from the emergence […]
Thérèse Mastroiacovo
“The exhibition sharing location includes several large-scale prints of drawings. In these images, some parts of the drawing are cropped away, and the space behind, an area made possible in the translation from one format to another, approaches – a large white space, left open. Added afterwards, a second ground, this space the drawing and […]
Dafna Maimon
In her film and performative works Maimon examines the complex interrelations of identity, body and self, making transparent the dimensions of the ego as a multilayered construction and projection. Repetitive text structures, special techniques of film editing such as time-montage, loops and asynchronicity, as well as the staging of dream sequences and mise en scène […]
Joshua Schwebel
Joshua Schwebel is a conceptual artist, whose work concentrates primarily on disclosing the power to create meaning inherent in the art world’s forms of presentation and reception. Starting out from himself and his position as an artist, in his work he extends his criticism of the discrepancy between ideal and reality to working conditions in art […]
Sergey Voronzov / Juliana Bardolim
In the context of their occasional artistic collaborations, concept artist Sergey Voronzov and writer Juliana Bardolim are concerned with phenomena and conditions of the art business. Their current cooperation aims to fathom boundaries in regard to the artist’s sensitivity. In preparation for this, the artists formulated various questions, which are now visualized in the exhibition […]
Florin Kompatscher
Florin Kompatscher’s exhibition Fluss ohne Ufer (River with no Banks) gives insight into a diverse oeuvre, which evidences the artist’s extensive knowledge of design and composition but also of technology, and documents his practical artistic skills at the very highest level. Kompatscher’s painting is not about creating mimetic reproductions. Instead, it is the result of […]
Timur Celik
Timur Celik is known primarily for his large-format portraits, whose style may be characterized as ‘hyperrealistic’ – something that is equally true of his smaller format works. The expressions on the faces of those portrayed are intense, seeming to approach the viewer in a kaleidoscopic play of rust, asphalt and other colour nuances associated with […]
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Working with appropriated material is a long established artistic practise, but the experimental film Pencil Dance (silent version, 1989, 2:48 min) offers a different twist. Chris Casady used to work as an animator in Hollywood’s special effects industry with a focus on hand-drawn natural phenomenon like lightning, fluids or sparks. Around 1984 he decided to recontextualize […]