Elisabeth Homar-Zogmayer
artist
Miniature sculptures and collages for the exhibition "UPcycling" with Irene Wölfl, Peter Rosmanith, Hans Ringhofer. June 10 - September 3, 2010
The exhibition "UPcycling" shows tiny sculptures and miniature collages made of trash by Elisabeth Homar-Zogmayer. The artist's work reveals her enviably preservative approach to life. On the one hand there is the small sized item, the miniature, she and we with her are pleased with and which she opposes to the gigantisms of our time in an unobtrusive yet tenacious way. On the other hand there are her materials: discarded, worn-out bits and pieces washed ashore, namely on Elisabeth Homar-Zogmayer's quiet, peaceful shore. She not only saves these items from ending their existence in a landfill somewhere, but also charges them with new life-affirming energy making them radiate refreshing optimism.
Elisabeth Homar-Zogmayer's works tell stories. Stories of subtle wisdom and the teachings of life as materialized in her "finds". A sculpture of the artist is hence a composition of cultural and natural fragments with their distinct messages which she adopts and uses for her own statements. The poetic titles accomplish her carefully composed 3D-pictures. At the same time these titles set our imagination on fire, make adventures arise in our heads. In her typical way she explains her philosophy with the help of her titles:
"Assiduously I'm knitting my mental framework: quite desirable dizziness, a paradise for rent, the heart runs off and away, goldilocks, luck spreads, flowery island-tinents, then I won't stir from the spot, my cage has always been open, my burden is light, the housing problem seems solved, a ship arrives, come fly with me!"
Peter Rosmanith
Musician (percussion)
Dolby Surround sound-installation, CD for the exhibition "UPcycling" with Irene Wölfl, Elisabeth Homar-Zogmayer, Hans Ringhofer. June 10 - September 3, 2010
The exhibition "UPcycling" shows tiny sculptures and miniature collages made of trash by Elisabeth Homar-Zogmayer. The artist's work reveals her enviably preservative approach to life. On the one hand there is the small sized item, the miniature, she and we with her are pleased with and which she opposes to the gigantisms of our time in an unobtrusive yet tenacious way. On the other hand there are her materials: discarded, worn-out bits and pieces washed ashore, namely on Elisabeth Homar-Zogmayer's quiet, peaceful shore. She not only saves these items from ending their existence in a landfill somewhere, but also charges them with new life-affirming energy making them radiate refreshing optimism.
Elisabeth Homar-Zogmayer's works tell stories. Stories of subtle wisdom and the teachings of life as materialized in her "finds". A sculpture of the artist is hence a composition of cultural and natural fragments with their distinct messages which she adopts and uses for her own statements. The poetic titles accomplish her carefully composed 3D-pictures. At the same time these titles set our imagination on fire, make adventures arise in our heads. In her typical way she explains her philosophy with the help of her titles:
"Assiduously I'm knitting my mental framework: quite desirable dizziness, a paradise for rent, the heart runs off and away, goldilocks, luck spreads, flowery island-tinents, then I won't stir from the spot, my cage has always been open, my burden is light, the housing problem seems solved, a ship arrives, come fly with me!"
Hans Ringhofer
photographer
Photos for the exhibition "UPcycling" with Irene Wölfl, Elisabeth Homar-Zogmayer, Peter Rosmanith. June 10 - September 3, 2010
Music inspires me, my work. That's why I have been overjoyed to accompany Peter Rosmanith's search for sounds with my camera. He looks for sounds which already exist in worn-out, thrown away products of everyday life.
The music of usage and experience form the base of Peter Rosmanith's sounds. My shots are no mere documentation, but more than that: I understand them as some kind of visual "brackets" for the process of solemn and ephemeral moments. My pictures show the external and internal flow of freedom which can be found on the playful search for acoustic harmony.
Max Nagl
Jazzmusician (saxophone)
Composition, live performance of "floating in air" & "keep hold of yourself" for "We are floating in the air" with Eduardo Vega de Seoane (April 8 - May 29, 2010).
Max Nagl on his composition for the a. m. show:
According to an imaginary saxophone's sound Eduardo Vega de Seoane paints music. I took the piece "keep hold of yourself", played Sonny Rollins' solo part three, even four times slower than the original, created an acoustic background by overlayering. In the end free jamming makes my canvas vibrate. The colourful sounds of my sax grant the aerial atmosphere of Eduardo's paintings the chance to be experienced through music as well.
for more information about the artist: www.maxnagl.at
Benedikt Jahnel
Jazzmusician (piano)
Dolby Surround sound-installation, CD "Poetische Logik_Logische Poesie" for the exhibition "Poesie der Logik" with Walter Angerer-Niketa and Harald Plochberger. June 19 - September 5, 2009
Benedikt Jahnel about "Poetische Logik_Logische Poesie":
The common exhibition with Walter Angerer-Niketa and Harald Plochberger offered to me – as a mathematician and jazzmusician – the opportunity to combine both my passions in the most conscious of ways. My intense search for mathematics in music and music in mathematics inspired me to formulate two complementary compositions:
“Structures” combines different technical and virtuous means which are all characterized by structural and therefore interesting principles from a mathematical point of view. The sounds of various pianos, laid on top of each other, correspond to the principle of multi-layering. Music emerges according to the layers’ pattern and inter-weaving levels. By shifting these layers against each other new forms evolve. Art in time (= music) alone is able to generate this quality. Through the Dolby Surround System the music also gains space.
„Pi – Universal Composer“ varies a tone sequence generated by the infinte number Pi. If we just listened long enough, we would hear any imaginable melody. Like drops the piano tones fall into the room. The boundless, poetical logic of the number Pi offers us nothing less than the opportunity to share for one moment its very own infinity.
For more information about the artist: www.benejahnel.de
Wolfgang Muthspiel
Jazzmusician (guitar)
Dolby Surround sound-installation, CD "WaldStück" for the exhibition "WaldRaum" with Guido Zehetbauer-Salzer. April 3 - June 6, 2009
Wolfgang Muthspiel about "Waldstück":
With the sound-installation "WaldStück" I want to translate my vision of the forest into music. The installation makes the listener immerse into a concentrated, meditative inner condition opening all senses. Through interaction with the paintings of Guido Zehetbauer-Salzer we create a space where we can linger without being tempted to deliver precocious judgements.
I partially use my own field recordings, the real “music” of the forest, but the larger part of the sounds were created by celli and guitars. The sound-installation can be experienced in 7.1 Dolby Surround enwrapping the observer/listener, annihilating the classic time lapse of a concert performance.
To me it seems an interesting phenomenon that in the middle of a forest we become impressed by its silence while listening at the same moment to all kinds of sounds since the forest is far from silent. In contrast, in real silence - in an anechoic room - a sensation of constriction emerges. Creating music which provokes a kind of inner silence occurs to me as a prime ideal; a prime ideal the forest constantly succeeds creating in its very own and special way.
For more information about the artist: www.materialrecords.com