strata - Sammlung Lenikus
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strata - Sammlung Lenikus
STRATA annual exhibition opening 18.09.2012 at 7pm 19.09. – 10.11.2012 Passage Bauernmarkt 9 / Wildpretmarkt 6 1010 Vienna artists in the show Lutz Braun, Hugo Canoilas, Svenja Deininger, Stano Filko, Carsten Fock, Nick Goss, Eva Kotatkova, Kalin Lindena, Alexander D. Martinz, mahony, Keegan McHargue, Oswald Oberhuber, Nick Oberthaler, Michael Part, Amalia Pica, Arnulf Rainer, Jackson Slattery, Jannis Varelas curated by Francesco Stocchi Dialogue by Amalia Pica opening 18. September 2012, 7 pm opening hours 19.09. - 10.11. 2012 Thursday-Saturday 4-7 pm or by appointment artists in the show Lutz Braun, Hugo Canoilas, Svenja Deininger, Stano Filko, Carsten Fock, Nick Goss, Eva Kotatkova, Kalin Lindena, Alexander D. Martinz, mahony, Keegan McHargue, Oswald Oberhuber, Nick Oberthaler, Michael Part, Amalia Pica, Arnulf Rainer, Jackson Slattery, Jannis Varelas curated by Francesco Stocchi contact SAMMLUNG LENIKUS Angela E. Akbari T +43 650 605 64 81 [email protected] www.sammlunglenikus.at advisory board of the SAMMLUNG LENIKUS Cosima Rainer Jasper Sharp Francesco Stocchi Privatstiftung Lenikus FN 176807k, HG Wien Parkring 10 / A -1010 Wien T +43 1 516 31 0 F +43 1 516 31 190 STRATA Strata is a latin term signifying a series of layers within a structure. A painting can present different strata in its composition, the materials used, or its techniques. A film is both a sequence and a strata of objects, situations and sounds. A sculpture, like a drawing, can carry allegories with many strata of meaning. And a collection of these objects, by its very nature, is a strata composed of interpretative and communicative behaviour. Considered and irrational decisions, expectations, regrets and reconsiderations. The process of collecting can invigorate and cause suffering at the same time. It forms a portrait of the collector, composed of manifold strata, in which one can perceive a passage of time, its shifting states of mind and associations. Recent acquisitions of the Lenikus Collection are assembled here, in a display that refers to the tautology which the terms collection and stratification suggest. Through the work of seventeen artists with dissimilar interests, experience and methods of research, Strata casts light on the processes of creation, association, layering, addition and subtraction. Lutz Braun > untitled, 2010 indian ink on paper 29,7 x 21 cm > untitled, 2010 indian ink on paper 29,7 x 21 cm _ born 1976 in Schleswig, lives in Berlin His work is concerned with matters of myth, Freudian subconsciousness and more recently with political and social issues in a broader sense. Braun‘s paintings and drawings leave the viewer with a sense of skeptic urgency, as everything, once depicted, would seem to be out of place. The artist´s choices of dark combinations of colour and their expressive, misty applications, add to the ability to promote uneasy feelings in the viewer. Hugo Canoilas > Void, 2010 oil on MDF 190 x 160 x 160 cm _ born 1977 in Lisbon, lives in Vienna Hugo Canoilas could be seen as a recycling propagandist. He enhances the urgency of artistic coproduction, mainly involving paintings or examinations around the medium itself. The political engagement of his practice is manifest through the research investigations on form and a holistic organization of the collective structure. Svenja Deininger > untitled, 2010 oil on canvas 65 x 50 cm _ born 1974 in Vienna, lives in Vienna Svenja Deininger‘s practice resides in a continuous tension between addition and subtraction. In a perpetual quest towards a balance, a state of seemly order, the artist overlaps multiple view points, techniques, substances to the erased elements. Nothing seems to follow a predetermined path: geometrical abstracted figures implode into contrasts of tones and planes in relation, guided by a transparent process which composes a realistic, trackable illusion. Stano Filko > Kosmologia – Heliocentrizsmus von Farbach 7 Akrier, ca. 1978 - 84 acryl on paper 70 x 50 cm _ born 1937 in Velka Hradna, Slovak Republic, lives in Bratislava Stanislav Filko belongs to the founders of conceptual art in Slovakia and was a key figure in the Bratislava art circles of the 1960s and 1970s. His earlier work shows an interest in two dimensional spatial concepts. From the late 1960s, his work takes a new turn, becoming tinged with references to transcendental philosophy, history and metaphysics. Filko’s cosmological attitude to art creation is hypersensitive, where colours, rather than forms, generate a spatial illusion. Carsten Fock > untitled, 2011 mixed media on cotton 145 x 115 cm _ born 1968 in Gera, lives in Berlin and Vienna Carsten Fock‘s practise emphasises drawings and paintings in which he combines fragments of texts or individual words. These fragments are often painted over, sometimes they are still legible, but frequently they can no longer be decoded. Invisibility clashes with sensorial faculties in a quest towards the absolute. Nick Goss > Beacon, 2011 oil on paper 153 x 122 cm _ born 1981 in Bristol, England, lives in London The paintings and works on paper of Nick Goss investigate distinctly liminal areas and subcultures, in which elusive traces of human presence gradually emerge from a ground of subtly contrasting textures. They deliberately seek out geographies and subject matter that exist somewhere between the landscape and the industrial, the recognisable and the ambiguous. Eva Kotatkova > from the series parallel biography, 2012 wooden boards painted, paper-drawings, collages 70 x 400 cm _ born 1979 in Prague, lives in Prague Eva Kotatkova’s interest is directed towards the human body, the psyche, in relation to recollections. She understands them as expressions of social conditioning mechanisms. The underlying authoritarian ideologies are targeted with a certain sense of humour by her drawings, paper-photos and collages in relation to metal structures installations which compose a dualistic, ambiguous whole. Kalin Lindena > Statist: Reifentanz, 2011 hula hoop, wood, cardboard, car mirror 200 x 80 x 89 cm _ born 1977 in Hannover, lives in Berlin Kalin Lindena dramatically plays with her spectators. Her sculptures represent multi-layered figures, fragmented visions in three dimensional collages. The artist orchestrates silent ballet of frozen moment in time. Material qualities such as colour, weight and shape fail to remember their properties to compose choreographical compositions. mahony > Bir Tawil, 2010 gouache on paper 100 x 130 x 20 cm _ live and work in Vienna Much of mahonys artistic production dances in balance well known and unknown historical facts. This kind of appropriation means for the austrian collective questioning, transforming, translating, re-associating and reactivating the chosen topic. These processes suggest new, manifold relations connecting past to the present throughout geographical and historical zones, social and political contexts. Alexander D. Martinz > henry sam ocean, 2009 _ Video, Dauer 4:47 Alexander Martinz assembles his moving pictures out of takes from other films. The finished works show a sort of polyphony: The divisions of the projected area in the form of strips symbolize autonomous voices; The array of the sound tracks and image sequences creates the impression of a visual notation system. Keegan McHargue > untitled, 2011 indian ink on paper _ 42 x 30 cm born 1982 in Portland, Oregon, lives in New York Keegan McHargue combines banal interiors, pattern, and disjointed figures to create paintings and drawings that reference both art history and popular culture. His colour palettes, compositions and his natural ability towards painting is both enchanting and meticulous. Each work presents a dualism between an independence of vision and a careful approach to composition. Oswald Oberhuber > Komposition mit Pferd, 1994 drawing _ 44 x 56 cm born in 1931 in Meran, lives in Vienna Oswald Oberhuber has greatly influenced the post-1950 Austrian art world, not only as an artist, but also as a curator, professor and theorist. He is the father of informal painting and sculpture in Austria. Expressing his artistic talent through a corollary of languages, materials and techniques, he is an inspiring figure for following generations of artists. Nick Oberthaler > untitled, 2012 indian ink gouache pastel on paper _ 48 x 36 cm born 1981 in Bad Ischl, lives in Vienna Nick Oberthaler’s painting research is expressed through different techniques such as wax, crayons, Indian ink, combining them with applied cardboard. Oberthaler’s windows open towards imaginary landscapes offer a subtle poetic imagery that seeks to capture moments of desire. Michael Part > untitled, 2011 silver on brass 100 x 67 cm > untitled, 2011 silver on brass (zementation) _ 100 x 67 cm born 1979 in Vienna, lives in Vienna Michael Part’s copper and brass panels are closely linked to analogue photography through their materials and production process. In a conceptual process generating unexpected formal qualities‘ reactions, the artist immerses metal panels into silver gelatin prints‘ solutions extracted from early photographic prints. What is obsolete, labelled as historical, or nostalgic grows into new, enriching prospects. Amalia Pica > Dialogue (Paper and Mountain), 2010 _ image composed with A3 photocopies (small), 1/3 born 1978 in Neuquen, Argentina, lives in London Amalia Pica works in a variety of media ranging from sculpture, photography, film, to installation, adopting a conceptual approach marked by wit and a sense of play. “The works often explore the idea of enunciation and the performative nature of thought and speech” in the artist’s words. Perception, time, memory, and a sense of how particular gestures read in different cultural contexts are central to Pica‘s work. What interests the artist is the distance between sender and receiver, the ways we misunderstand or misremember. Arnulf Rainer > untitled, 1995 lithography, 33/35 _ 63 x 49 cm born 1929 in Baden, lives in Vienna The Austrian printmaker, painter and photographer employed a technique akin to the Surrealists‘ automatic writing and evolved towards Destruction of Forms. Working with materials such as pencils and oil paints, Rainer draws overtop photographs, self-portrait and images made by classical and contemporary artists. From the mid-1970s the artist reworked photographs on a variety of subjects, constantly adding to his repertory of images he continued to exploit the interaction of intellectual meditation and bodily expression. Jackson Slattery > untiteled, 2012 water colour 58 x 38,5 cm _ born 1983 in Melbourne, Australia, lives in Montreal, Canada Jackson Slattery‘s technically accomplished works, which he regards as drawings with paint, are based on photographs which are either personal or sourced from magazines such as National Geographic or online photo-sharing platforms. His meticulously executed water-colors transcend hyper realism: stereotyped symbols are depicted together with personal narratives which enable to overshadow the limits of representation. Jannis Varelas > untitled, 2012 pencil/collage on paper 40 x 29,5 cm _ born 1977 in Athens, lives in Athens and Vienna In his artistic practice Varelas alternates between drawing, collage, video and sculpture. His monumental drawings in collage technique feature hybrid figures which challenge the social norms that classify human beings and divide them into categories. Varelas’ own characters are paradoxical and impossible to define, revealing what it is like to be a humanoid presence who cannot fit into the mould for gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity or religion. Lutz Braun Eva Kotatkova Michael Part 1 > untitled, 2010 8 > from the series parallel 14 > untitled, 2011 indian ink on paper biography, 2012 silver on brass 29,7 x 21 cm wooden boards painted, 100 x 67 cm 2 > untitled, 2010 indian ink on paper 29,7 x 21 cm Hugo Canoilas 3 > Void, 2010 oil on MDF 190 x 160 x 160 cm Svenja Deininger 4 > untitled, 2010 oil on canvas 65 x 50 cm paper-drawings, collages 70 x 400 cm Kalin Lindena 15 > untitled, 2011 silver on brass (zementation) 100 x 67 cm 9 > Statist: Reifentanz, 2011 hula hoop, wood, Amalia Pica cardboard, car mirror 16 > Dialogue (Paper and 200 x 80 x 89 cm mahony Mountain), 2010 image composed with A3 photocopies (small), 1/3 10 > Bir Tawil, 2010 gouache on paper Arnulf Rainer 100 x 130 x 20 cm 17 > untitled, 1995 lithography, 33/35 Stano Filko 5 > Kosmologia – Heliocentrizsmus von Farbach 7 Akrier, ca. 1978 - 84 acryl on paper 70 x 50 cm Carsten Fock 6 > untitled, 2011 mixed media on cotton 145 x 115 cm Nick Goss 7 > Beacon, 2011 oil on paper 153 x 122 cm Keegan McHargue 11 > untitled, 2011 indian ink on paper 42 x 30 cm Oswald Oberhuber 12 > Komposition mit Pferd, 1994 drawing 44 x 56 cm Nick Oberthaler 13 > untitled, 2012 indian ink gouache pastel on paper 48 x 36 cm 63 x 49 cm Jackson Slattery 18 > untiteled, 2012 water colour 52,5 x 34 cm, 58 x 38,5 cm Jannis Varelas 19 > untitled, 2012 pencil/collage on paper 40 x 29,5 cm Alexander D. Martinz 20 > henry sam ocean, 2009 Video, Dauer 4:47 8 18 11 19 12 2 1 15 14 9 16 5 3 6 7 20 10 4 17 13