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Parade der Jungen Kunst in Wien
VON GERHARD CHARLES RUMP16. Mai 2009, 03:43 Uhr
Die Vienna Fair behauptet sich mit einem leichten Besucherplus
Kaiserwetter in Wien. Der Prater quillt am Wochenende über, Schlangen vor den Beisln. Und dennoch eine gut besuchte Vienna Fair. Etwa 16 000 Besucher (ein leichtes Plus) kamen zu den jetzt auch direkt an die U-Bahn angeschlossenen Messehallen, um die Schaustücke der 122 Aussteller zu sehen. Und zu kaufen. Ja, denn trotz allen Krisengeredes und Wiener Lust am Untergang wechselte so manches Werk von der Koje übers Sofa. Oder wo sonst der Sammler seine Beute verstaut. Von Beute kann man insofern gut reden, weil die Messe jede Menge Wolpertinger - von Deborah Sengl, Marine Joatton (bei Steinek , Schloss Ebenau im Rosental bei Weizelsdorf; um 6000 Euro) und vielen anderen mehr - im Angebot hatte. Fabelwesen sind in. Sind sie ein Versuch, die stetige und auch weiterhin wachsende Rätselhaftigkeit von und die Angst vor der Welt zu materialisieren?
"Die Stimmung ist nicht überschäumend, aber wir sind mit unserem Auftritt zufrieden." meint Katharina Cappel von "Drei" aus Köln. Sie kam zu ersten Mal nach Wien und ließ gleich ein Werk des Fotokünstlers Hannes Norberg da, flankiert von Stefan Löffelhardt. Ein gelungener Einstand, in der Tat. Hannes Norberg, cool, reduziert, mit zarten Bezügen zur Romantik, verkaufte sich auch bei Klaus Benden (Köln). Der wiederum beschrieb die Lage mit den Worten: "Slow. Aber wir haben hier unsere in fünf Jahren aufgebaute Klientel wiedergetroffen und konnten daher verkaufen. Und eine gewisse Zurückhaltung ist in Wien eh immer an der Tagesordnung gewesen."
Die Vienna Fair ist die wohl einzige Messe im Westen mit dem Schwerpunkt Osteuropa. Auch heuer hatten die Galerien aus dem Osten einen geballten Auftritt. Leider hatte man ihnen schlauchartige, sieben Meter tiefe Kojen gegeben. Das schreckte ein wenig ab, zumal die Kunst aus diesen Ländern so herb ist wie die Lebensverhältnisse dort. Das schaut am sich lieber an, wenn der Stand großzügig wirkt, in der Breite, nicht tief. Das kann man im nächsten Jahr besser machen.
Tony Cragg ist vor wenigen Tagen neuer Rektor der Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf geworden. Passend dazu: Bei Knoll (Wien) eine Sonderschau seiner Werke. Sie stellte unter Beweis, wie vielseitig dieser bedeutende Bildhauer ist. Seine Formen widersetzen sich allem Gängigem und behaupten eine ganz eigenständige, aufregende, fordernde Position.
Das kann man auch von der Malerei von Oliver Dorfer sagen. Sein Hausgalerist Ernst Hilger (Wien) hielt sich zugunsten der mit ihm kooperierenden Baukunst Galerie (Köln) zurück. Dafür zeigte Hilger Brian McKee (Fotos) und die Textilarbeiten von Sara Rahbar, für die sich weltweit immer mehr Sammler begeistern. Sein Fazit: "Wir sind sehr zufrieden, haben unter anderem mehrere Arbeiten von Daniele Buetti und Andreas Leikauf veräußern können."
Erstteilnehmer - weil als Neugründung aus einer anderen Galerie hervorgegangen - Flügel/Roncak (Nürnberg und Bratislava) waren auch hoch zufrieden: "Der Schwerpunkt 'Junge Kunst' macht den Charakter der Messe aus, und das kommt uns sehr entgegen." Sie zeigten farbenfreudige Bilder von Bozena Bosko (um 6000 Euro) und, Hingucker schlechthin, Gemälde von Simone Kocher. In "No milk today" etwa steht ein Anime-artiges Kind in einem Eimer hinter einem Mini-Hirsch. Das kommt gut an, und nicht nur in Österreich.
"ftc." aus Berlin verweigerten sich dem genius loci und brachten eine Serie von 47x38 cm großen Fotos (Diasec auf MDF) von Frank Breuer mit. Breuer hat es mit den überladenen, schief stehenden Elektromasten in amerikanischen Kleinstädten (Auflage 12+1, 2900 Euro). Ständig fürchtet man, sie kippen nun um. Selbst im Foto ...
Den Erfolg der Messe als "einigermaßen zufrieden" beschreiben auch Hollenbach (Stuttgart), Braunbehres (München). Und vor allem Chobot (Wien) und Wasserwerk (Siegburg) sowie Susanne Zander (Köln), die das Banner der Art Brut (und verwandten Positionen) hochhalten. Immerhin: Eine große Statue von Walter Moroder (25 000) fand durch Chobot ein neues Heim.
In Wien gibt es parallel zur Messe aber auch andere, intimere, aber konzentrierte und qualitätvolle Kunst-Ereignisse. So etwa die auch durch Messeteilnehmerin Krinzinger (Wien) und Jette Rudolph (Berlin, nicht Messeteilnehmerin) mitorganisierte Schau "Sex Rules" im Apartment Draschan auf der Grüngasse 12/18. Marcus Sendlinger hatte speziell dafür Werke geschaffen, Künstler wie Caro Suerkemper zeigten sonst eher zurückgehaltene Arbeiten, Thomas Draschan, Nives Widauer, Angelika Krinzinger, Manfred Peckl und Hermann Nitsch sowie eine ganze Reihe anderer Künstler waren mit von der Partie, die sich vor keinem Museum zu verstecken brauchte. Ach, Wien! Nächstes Jahr wieder, und das auf jeden Fall!
Dallas Seitz featuring in the new edition of Wound Magazine
The Social Lives of Objects
By jimmy holloway
The most recent show at Castlefield Gallery is an exhibition of three artists all concerned with the nature of objects and their ability to evoke memory and association. The hanging of the show is evocative of museum or 'Cabinet of Curiosities' with object and artwork placed throughout the gallery. The absence of signage and description enables the work to be free from the authorship of each artist and enables the viewer to imprint their own personal mythology on to the mysterious artefacts and images which are presented.
Each artist has salvaged an experience of humanity, from the in-depth personal and autobiographical works of Dallas Seitz to the collages and sculptural assemblages made and inspired by discarded domestic magazines publications by Lisa Penny and finally to the scouring of the streets and internet for defunct objects which are later 'repaired' or re-interpreted by Hilary Jack. This group exploration of ephemera draws few conclusions, the exhibition acts as a snap-shot into the ongoing process of autobiographical categorisation and understanding which is a universal experience of living. Throughout ones amorphous life-span memory is key to our experiences which help form the person we become, in this process we surround ourselves with objects which help to delineate and signpost our identity both personally and culturally. Some objects are collected and esteemed others are discarded, it is this hierarchical location of the object that the artists explore. Creating assemblages which re-present the 'lost and found' to art object and to esteem the personal collectable to the 'museology' of the public realm.
'The Social Lives of Objects' successfully invites a reappraisal of ones owns loved and loathed detritus, haunting, humorous and occasionally disturbing this collection of objects is a manifestation of the rare and unusual example of a group exhibition that hangs together coherently without visual clash or compromising the individuality of each participating artist. The resulting labyrinthine narrative summons the 'Freudian' notion of 'the Uncanny' and leaves the audience to ponder the nature of the objects that litter our lives.
Jimmy Holloway
Reviewed: Thu, 04 June, 2009
Hilary Jack, Lisa Penny and Dallas Seitz are artistic plunderers of the roadside skip, the charity shop and of the more eccentric reaches of eBay. They recycle the detritus of our urban existences: broken umbrellas, last month's magazines, false teeth, detached stilettos, mangy fox stoles, mantelpiece ceramic ornaments no longer treasured. Their raw materials bear the marks of backstreet histories. Through an aesthetic of fragmentation, of disorientation and unpredictable re-assemblage, they arrive at sculptural images that come on like dream mementos of fictional autobiographies, or icons of obscure personal mythologies. It's a sculptural tradition with a long history - dada, surrealism - the mundane made marvellous, bad taste transformed into something else.
RUN PAINT RUN RUN
Run Paint Run Run can roughly be defined as a blog about arts, culture and shtuff in Manchester.
Summer is here, bringing with it a new lightness and fanciful feel to the Manchester art scene.
Along with the upcoming POI at the Cornerhouse, the darkly frivolous The Social Lives of Objects at the Castlefield looks set to riff off ideas and concepts I'm an absolute sucker for. I'm susceptible to anything which manages to be really joyfully playful and still gracefully retain it's intellectual credentials while being friendlily intelligent. Barthes is my touch-stone when judging things on this aspect.
We all know that excessive stuff is both the suffocating cancer of life in a post-modern age and the absolute bloody joy. My own irrational affection for old mugs and defunct gewgaws makes me a hellish person to live with. I'm constantly frustrated by my own avarice.
If you find any of the above reflected in yourself, you'll certainly find it mirrored in the complex but playful telling of the stories which surround our relationship with objects. This exhibition features a fresh and exciting collection of work by three artists based in Manchester and London, Hilary Jack, Lisa Penny and Dallas Seitz.
The Social Lives of Objects opened on Thursday 28th May and runs until the 19 July 2008. There will be a tour and discussion on the 18th June, 6 - 8pm. Contact the gallery to book.
Opening Times: Wednesday to Sunday 1pm – 6 pm
Website : www.castlefield.co.uk
Carter Presents is a secret gem of the Hoxton galleries for me, and one that is about as far off White Cube as possible - which is, well, good.
Hidden off Orsman Road by the canal, it's small, could be someone's living room (admittedly a very cool one), and has a great space outside for larger installations, drinking in private views and generally enjoying the summer evening, when it's summer.
Their roster of artists are generally pretty mental and i've seen stuff ranging from bizarre organic creations from Dallas Seitz to Derek Ogbourne's disaster/destruction series of photographs and film work.
I also saw their pitch at the London Art Fair - and it was pretty raucous - sort of a mixture of cartooned glamour and ultraviolence graffiti.
So, in short, great gallery. Oh, and there's a nice Banksy on the wall on the way to the loo.
RUN PAINT RUN RUN
Run Paint Run Run can roughly be defined as a blog about arts, culture and shtuff in Manchester.
Summer is here, bringing with it a new lightness and fanciful feel to the Manchester art scene.
Along with the upcoming POI at the Cornerhouse, the darkly frivolous The Social Lives of Objects at the Castlefield looks set to riff off ideas and concepts I'm an absolute sucker for. I'm susceptible to anything which manages to be really joyfully playful and still gracefully retain it's intellectual credentials while being friendlily intelligent. Barthes is my touch-stone when judging things on this aspect.
We all know that excessive stuff is both the suffocating cancer of life in a post-modern age and the absolute bloody joy. My own irrational affection for old mugs and defunct gewgaws makes me a hellish person to live with. I'm constantly frustrated by my own avarice.
If you find any of the above reflected in yourself, you'll certainly find it mirrored in the complex but playful telling of the stories which surround our relationship with objects. This exhibition features a fresh and exciting collection of work by three artists based in Manchester and London, Hilary Jack, Lisa Penny and Dallas Seitz.
The Social Lives of Objects opened on Thursday 28th May and runs until the 19 July 2008. There will be a tour and discussion on the 18th June, 6 - 8pm. Contact the gallery to book.
Opening Times: Wednesday to Sunday 1pm – 6 pm
Website : www.castlefield.co.uk
Exhibition preview: The Social Lives Of Objects, Manchester
Castlefield Gallery, to 19 Jul
Hilary Jack, Lisa Penny and Dallas Seitz are artistic plunderers of the roadside skip, the charity shop and of the more eccentric reaches of eBay. They recycle the detritus of our urban existences: broken umbrellas, last month's magazines, false teeth, detached stilettos, mangy fox stoles, mantelpiece ceramic ornaments no longer treasured. Their raw materials bear the marks of backstreet histories. Through an aesthetic of fragmentation, of disorientation and unpredictable re-assemblage, they arrive at sculptural images that come on like dream mementos of fictional autobiographies, or icons of obscure personal mythologies. It's a sculptural tradition with a long history - dada, surrealism - the mundane made marvellous, bad taste transformed into something else.
By jimmy holloway
The most recent show at Castlefield Gallery is an exhibition of three artists all concerned with the nature of objects and their ability to evoke memory and association. The hanging of the show is evocative of museum or 'Cabinet of Curiosities' with object and artwork placed throughout the gallery. The absence of signage and description enables the work to be free from the authorship of each artist and enables the viewer to imprint their own personal mythology on to the mysterious artefacts and images which are presented.
Each artist has salvaged an experience of humanity, from the in-depth personal and autobiographical works of Dallas Seitz to the collages and sculptural assemblages made and inspired by discarded domestic magazines publications by Lisa Penny and finally to the scouring of the streets and internet for defunct objects which are later 'repaired' or re-interpreted by Hilary Jack. This group exploration of ephemera draws few conclusions, the exhibition acts as a snap-shot into the ongoing process of autobiographical categorisation and understanding which is a universal experience of living. Throughout ones amorphous life-span memory is key to our experiences which help form the person we become, in this process we surround ourselves with objects which help to delineate and signpost our identity both personally and culturally. Some objects are collected and esteemed others are discarded, it is this hierarchical location of the object that the artists explore. Creating assemblages which re-present the 'lost and found' to art object and to esteem the personal collectable to the 'museology' of the public realm.
'The Social Lives of Objects' successfully invites a reappraisal of ones owns loved and loathed detritus, haunting, humorous and occasionally disturbing this collection of objects is a manifestation of the rare and unusual example of a group exhibition that hangs together coherently without visual clash or compromising the individuality of each participating artist. The resulting labyrinthine narrative summons the 'Freudian' notion of 'the Uncanny' and leaves the audience to ponder the nature of the objects that litter our lives.
Jimmy Holloway
Reviewed: Thu, 04 June, 2009
Exhibition: The Social Lives of Objects, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, until July 19 2009.
Castlefield Gallery's latest show is nothing if not contemporary. Taking inspiration from an essay by Bruno Latour, a cult French social theorist who can be seen chugging merrily at a Shisha pipe on his Facebook fan page, it invites three relatively recent graduates to examine our relationship with the material world. They do this through reinterpretations of everyday objects, referencing social and anthropological research and personal memory along the way.
The trio involved seem well-placed to attack the challenge. Manchester artist Hilary Jack likes finding discarded material on city streets, in charity shops and on eBay (she publicly "repaired" the arm of a porcelain figurine by remoulding it with sticky chewing gum) and is the co-curator of Apartment, an artist-led project and exhibition space operating from a one-bedroom council flat.
Last year she organised a mystical group show called Sex and Witchcraft at London's Transition Gallery with fellow exhibitor Lisa Penny, who debuted in Berlin in 2007 and is Director of the politically charged 1,000,000 Mph Gallery in the capital.
Dallas Seitz founded that Gallery in 2001, and the multi award-winning, Canadian-born sculptor and video artist counts a film of his father killing a coyote and a series of dismembered heads on poles among his more memorable works. He should enjoy the "dark and playful narrative" of an exhibition contemplating "the powerful and poetic relationship we have with material goods in a world overflowing with 'stuff'."
Tour and discussion with the artists takes place at the Gallery on June 18, 6pm-8pm. Admission free, booking required, call 0161 832 8034.
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