Vernissage: Stephen Prina / Saskia Olde Wolbers / Wade Guyton

Donnerstag, 26. Mai 2011 - 19:00 Uhr

secession

Ausstellungseröffnung von:
_Stephen Prina: As He Remembered It
_Saskia Olde Wolbers: A Shot in the Dark
_Wade Guyton: Zeichnungen für ein kleines Zimmer


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Stephen Prina - As He Remembered It

The American artist, musician, and composer Stephen Prina appropriates the works of other artists. The spectrum of his references includes theoretical, literary, and artistic models ranging from Theodor W. Adorno to Felix Gonzales-Torres, from pop music to the sonatas of Ludwig van Beethoven. By restaging the original material, transposing it into other media or taking up individual motifs and varying structures, Prina creates multifaceted systems of reference in which personal, art-historical and musical narratives enrich one another. Exquisite Corpse: The Complete Paintings of Manet (since 1988), for instance, is based on the pictures of the Impressionist painter Édouard Manet. Prina's graphical appropriation takes up the formats of the art-historical originals, but then replaces the pictorial content with monochrome surfaces. Stephen Prina's method, which explicitly combines various media, is moreover distinguished by open work structures that are subject to ongoing elaboration. He often produces adaptations of his own works for specific exhibitions, recontextualizing them in forever new ways in order to explore the relationship between the original artistic intention and the subsequent life of his objects. Beyond the wealth of quotations and references, Prina also undertakes a general reflection on the potential of the referential mode as a method in art.


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Saskia Olde - A Shot in the Dark

Bizarre free-floating narratives and hallucinatory visuals are the defining characteristics of Saskia Olde Wolbers' video works. Situated somewhere between illusion and reality, the narratives are based loosely on newspaper reports, documentaries or conversations from everyday life. The artist de-familiarizes and fictionally expands these sources and detaches the narrative from the imagery through the use of an off-screen voice. The oscillation between imagination and reality is heightened by monochromatic visual universes, which seem computer generated but are meticulously constructed scale models. Olde Wolbers' sets are miniature worlds, fabricated out of unusual materials such as fishing line, memory wire and cod liver oil pills, to form enclosed spaces and mysterious landscapes that recall the unreal worlds of Science Fiction. The sets are submerged in tanks filled with water and paint, and filmed using slow tracking shots. Olde Wolbers will be showing three works; Placebo , 2002, about a fake doctor, Trailer , 2005, and a new piece Pareidolia, 2010, which features animatronic birds and is set in 1930's Japan, relating the story of a German university professor being introduced to the world of Zen Archery. The exhibition at the Secession is the artist's first solo show in Austria.


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Wade Guyton - Zeichnungen für ein kleines Zimmer

Wade Guyton's artworks bear the traces of the accidents of automated production. An Epson inkjet printer reproduces nonrepresentational compositions, primarily in black and shades of gray . Circles, squares, stripes, oversized sans-serif typography. The abstraction the artist implements using standardized word processing, graphic design, and digital printing software is heightened by variations in the quality produced by the printing technology: tears, folds, now more, now less color on the canvas, saturation issues, and defects—every printing process represents a new blurring of authorship. Wade Guyton's works, which the artist often presents in site-specific installations tailored to the particular exhibition space, recall Jackson Pollock's production aesthetic. But even in his choice of media and instruments, Guyton marks his distance from any purist discourse on painting: prefabricated support media whose maximum width is determined by industry norms as well as thoroughly regulated software and color variations that more or less defy individual decision-making on the part of the artistic subject. Wade Guyton weaves a web of referential systems that must gesture toward the "real" world in order to stand in its ground in that world. For his exhibition in the Secession's Graphisches Kabinett, the artist is developing new works.

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Stephen Prina, As He Remembered It, Saskia Olde Wolbers, A Shot in the Dark, Wade Guyton, Zeichnungen für ein kleines Zimmer
Donnerstag, 26.05.2011 19:00
bis Sonntag, 21.08.2011
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Friedrichstraße 12
1010 Wien
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