Under the title Room Shutters - Shutters
we show works by Jari Genser, Magdalena Kreinecker and Hessam Samavatian
The exhibition was organized by Walter Seidl curated.
The exhibition "Raumblenden" deals with the dispositif of space and its constitution. What possibilities are there for depicting spaces and how do artistic procedures simultaneously intervene in the concealment or blinding of spaces or allow certain visual axes and not others?
In photographic practice, the aperture is one of the most important elements of the camera. It is the rear setting of the lens and determines how much light hits the sensor. This results in which spatial representation is placed in the center of the visual axis. The camera's aperture therefore serves as both an inclusion and exclusion criterion. Depending on the aperture setting and the incidence of light, how much of the depicted space appears visible, sharp or blurred. This sets the factors that influence the accuracy or inaccuracy of the depicted space.
Like photography, painting also determines the way we view spaces. Although painting once served as a direct means of depicting nature or the surrounding space, for the past 180 years photography has been introduced as an intermediate stage that establishes visual contact with spatial structures and replaces real vision with a medial one. Painting is therefore no longer regarded as the primary means of expression in art, but has to confront other media in order to allow new ways of looking at reality. On the other hand, this reflexive attitude leads to spaces being nested as modules and robbed of the free view. Layers and superimpositions or apertures overlap and reference a virtual world that attempts to penetrate from a two-dimensional to a three-dimensional dimension.
The exhibition "Raumblenden" recurs to levels of visibility that the individual artists negotiate and relate to each other photographically, painterly, printmaking and installatively. The dimensions of spatiality that result from this refer to the interconnectedness of different realities and their patterns of perception. This emphasizes the subjectivity of seeing, while at the same time creating new moments of perspective and scope for interpretation.
The exhibition was on display from January 30 to April 17, 2020.
In the context of the exhibition, an ART TALKS podcast with Walter Seidl has been released.
Hessam Samavatian, Untitled, Pigment print, 2016, ø 140 cm
Exhibition view Magdalena Kreinecker and Hessam Samavatian, Room Shutters - Shutters
© Anna Sophia Rußmann
Exhibition view Magdalena Kreinecker, Raumblenden - Shutters
© Anna Sophia Rußmann
Exhibition view Jari Genser, Raumblenden - Shutters
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Exhibition view Jari Genser and Hessam Samavatian, Room Shutters - Shutters
© Anna Sophia Rußmann
Magdalena Kreinecker in front of her installation in the exhibition Raumblenden - Shutters
© Anna Niederleitner
Jari Genser in front of his works in the exhibition Raumblenden - Shutters
© Anna Niederleitner
Photo exhibition view cover: © Anna Sophia Russmann
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