Contrasts
Jean-Paul Dumas-Grillet, Renate Krätschmer, Brigitte Pamperl,
Robert Staudinger
5.11. – 18. 12. 2010
Exhibition of photo-painting at the occasion of the European Month of Photography
Opening reception: November 4, 2010, 7.30 pm
Exhibition: November 5 – December 18, 2010
zs art has committed itself to the constructive criticism of being, the sustainable responsibility vis-à-vis the most precious thing there is, namely life itself. Aiming to implement our world of values, we have invited four photo-artists on the occasion of the European month of photography. Four very different approaches, but each one in its own way fulfils our maxim and is devoted to life.
The interface from one room to another, possibly to another interface, is the theme of Jean-Paul Dumas-Grillet. His minimalist views, his geometrical compositions radiate an enormous silence. Nothing moves. Here time seems frozen forever. Windows are the frames for the windows opposite. Even the undulating foaming ocean rests gently in itself. From the structures of real-life banalities and their shadow plays Jean-Paul creates graphically strict, abstract paintings.
Renate Krätschmer tells about the pulsating urban jungle in her photographic "Layerings". Facades, lights, advertising messages in up to 16 layers put on top of each other, randomly cut-out, in exaggerated colours, distorted and in different transparencies condense the orgiastic zest for life in metropolises characterised by sensory overload. In this picture cycle Renate Krätschmer reflects on the multi-layered nature of our perception over a certain period. She reduces by compressing the oversupply. She promises to offer the viewers of her photo-paintings an absolutely inexhaustible discovery tour.
Brigitte Pamperl's objects and paintings deal with light and breath, two factors which are vital for our survival. In an open-ended cycle of works she has captured in a photograph her first view from her window every morning since 2006. Every day she enjoys the ever changing light of the sky, which influences our feelings about life. By patchworking the air we breathe into an extraordinarily demanding everyday check pattern on the monitor she strikingly documents the variety of life using the same motif every time. In her geometrical compositions Brigitte Pamperl comments timelessly on time and transparently on the sky.
Robert Staudinger Robert Staudinger focuses on surfaces, the wooing sheaths we perceive as being, in which process we forget about what is behind. Whether due to fascination about the variety of deceptions or simply for lack of time for the efforts of involvement. His sharp, hyper-real face landscapes which are transformed into a meticulously synthetic new unreality on the computer seem to come from another world. Beautiful, shiny, impersonal, distant. They have deliberately not been conceived as portraits which illustrate the character of an individual, but on the contrary anonymise any reference to the person behind the pictures. Robert Staudinger sends the viewer on an expedition where not a pore, not one tiny hair has been left to chance. Even repeatedly hidden disharmonies of nature are staged perfectly.
Whatever difference there may be between the concepts of the four photo—artists, they orchestrate their pictures in a picturesque-poetic, excessive and reduced manner, each one in its way everyday motifs we no longer take in properly at all. As a consequence we miss fireworks of sensuality.
Opening: 4. 11. 2010, 7.30 pm
Welcoming speech: Andrea Zehetbauer, Managing Director ZS art
Introductory words:
Heike Eipeldauer, Curator BA-Kunstforum
Alice Schmatzberger, Art Historian
Guido Zehetbauer-Salzer, Artistic Director of ZSart KunstRaum
The artists will be present.
Contrasts at ZS art KunstRaum, Westbahnstr. 27-29, A-1070 Vienna:
Mo–Fr 11 am – 7 pm and after prior appointment by phone
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