EXHIBITION

Afterimage: Intuition and Duration within the Space of Art

EventTeaser: Afterimage: Intuition and Duration within the Space of Art

Matthew Verdon "The rectangular plane should be seen rather as the result of a plurality of straight lines in rectangular opposition (Nos. 1 - 6)", 2010 Balsa and foamcore, Dimensions variable

Opening and Artist Talk: April 11, 2012, 7pm

Artists: Steffi Alte, Frank Altmann, Frauke Dannert, Robert Dowling, Marita Fraser, Marcel Frey, Jan Kiefer, Alex Lawler, Alexandra Navratil, Janine Tobüren, Matthew Verdon

Curated by Alex Lawler and Frank Altmann

This exhibition maps the ways that 11 young European artists build physical, semiotic and cultural languages that lead in and out of contemporary notions of abstraction. Articulated within each of these spheres of abstraction is a relational world that is fundamentally literal and emphasizes a departure not from historical notions of figuration, but from historical non-objectivity.

This applied notion of abstract vision echoes Henri Bergson’s insistence of intuition over analysis and represents a position arising after an artist places themselves within the field of abstraction or inside the literalness of an object and turns back to face the world.

This exhibition posits that modes of perception and the mechanics of metaphysical vision serve as structural supports for abstraction in the same way as built structures support contemporary art culture. In this way, this group of artists reveal themselves through gestures that are both physically present and fundamentally conceptual.
 

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EXHIBITION

APPROPRIATION

Part I: Questioning the Image

EventTeaser:APPROPRIATION

Because of the current noticeable affinity towards the use and recontextualization of found material in the work of many artists active in international art discourse the curatorial team of the FOTOGALERIE WIEN, together with art historian and curator Petra Noll, has developed APPROPRIATION as the special focus for this year. The conceptual basis is provided by the Appropriation Art of the 1970s and 1980s in which artists conceptually appropriated pre-existing art works.

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