Current show
UPcycling
by Irene Wölfl (pictures), Elisabeth Homar-Zogmayer (objects), Peter Rosmanith (music), Hans Ringhofer (photography)
June 11 - September 3, 2010
If we compared the life of a product with the life of a human being, we could say that the worn out moribund veterans of our daily routine experience a truly vernal evening of life in the ZS art show "UPcycling". In a completely new, sublime context. Lightened by the future’s bright spotlight.
ZS art presents trash – upcycled trash turned into art. The used, no longer needed, superfluous rubbish of our daily routine is inspiring raw material to the visual artists Irene Wölfl and Elisabeth Homar-Zogmayer, the musician Peter Rosmanith and indirectly to the photographer Hans Ringhofer too. They transform their finds into pictures, tiny sculptures, (photographically recorded) music. Thus a once useful instrument of everyday life remains valuable in the future. The new upcycled products, these trash art works, are are constructive social criticism, trenchant statements for the attentive æsthete.
The show "UPcycling" offers some forward-looking approaches to a spirited and stimulating coexistence. Hence the ZS art KunstRaum gets for a three-month period transformed into an artistic landfill site showing inspiringly upcycled waste.
Connecting concepts: many different positions – one idea!
In order to prolong their lifetime Irene Wölfl uses worn out products of everyday life to weave her timeless paintings. Her pictures are utterly charming from a graphical point of view offering to the beholder an exciting expedition into „happy consumerism“. They are æsthetically critical documents, witty warnings of careless wastage.
Elisabeth Homar-Zogmayer's miniature sculptures and collages tell stories. The artists reads them in her finds, her raw material, and constantly collects them thanks to her environment, her friends, family, life. She identifies the crucial element for a miniature sculpture in the tiniest and most commonplace object of utility. She is able to fire our imagination, to set off adventures in our minds with the help of her microcosms full of carelessly thrown away items or elements borrowed from nature.
Percussionist Peter Rosmanith adds the acoustic component. Like the others he too uses worn out objects of everyday life, but: this time as soundboxes. Touching objects makes them sound. Peter Rosmanith arranges these sounds, creates melodious compositions. Not only live the evening of the opening reception but, also before on a landfill site where he selects his „instruments“ and warms up.
This performance is documented by the shots of photographer Hans Ringhofer. His re-visualization and hence recording of the ephemeral acoustic moment leads to the upcycling of ZS art’s "connecting concept".
press release (pdf) >
artists bios (pdf) >
Pictures for free use:
Irene Wölfl: "Skyline 4", 2009, 50 x 30 cm, collage made from plastic trash >
Elisabeth Homar-Zogmayer: "Emsig stricke ich mein Gedankengerüst", 2005, miniature sculpture made of "trash finds" >