(Im)Personal
Donnerstag, 02. März 2017 - 19:00 Uhr
Kunstraum LLLLLLl
Ibro Hasanovic /
Christoph Srb & Yodas Dolphins (Karl Kilian)
Kamen Stoyanov / Katharina Swoboda
Curated by Boris Kostadinov
in cooperation with Leo Kuelbs Collection New York - Berlin
March 3 - 30, 2017
Opening reception: March 2 (Thursday) at 7 p.m.
Artist talk / finissage: March 30 (Thursday) at 5 p.m.
How an architectural interior or exterior, nature or movement of the line in a drawing can create characters? How the lack of text or dialogue sometimes is the optimal way for creation of a perfect story?
(IM)PERSONAL examines the meaning of the missing human character and the classic narratives in video / film. There are no specific human characters in this selection. Paradoxically at the same time the videos tell specific stories related to specific life circumstances or some personal phenomenology of the artists.
The personification of the abstract or concrete object has its traditions in the film classic. We know how important is the objective world for David Lynch or how determinative is the place of the nature in the films of Michelangelo Antonioni.
In video art - the direct documentation, fragmentation and de-fragmentation of the sites is not only easier than in the film productions but it is mandatory technique which most directly leads to the idea. This immediacy of the video makes the object looks heroic and it becomes the main character.
Another important feature of these videos is the lack of dialogue and this is due not only the lack of human characters, but more because the original concepts - based on storyline and plot which do not rely on textual description.
Spectre by Ibro Hasanovic is a meditation on decay and death; on the ways memory haunts and affects the present. The film was shot on Yugoslav Navy Yacht GALEB which Josip Broz Tito used for parties, foreign visits and diplomacy. Once a glamorous symbol of Yugoslav history, the yacht now sits abandoned in a shipyard.
Untitled (Flying trees) by Katharina Swoboda is about the transportation of felled trees by helicopters in Graubunden, Switzerland. The video shows only a part of the sky, which is repeatedly traversed by a helicopter with a tree. This way of carrying trees is not uncommon in the mountains, but very expensive and therefore rarely applied.
The monumentality and the surreal vision of all this is a product of a documentation of a very real experience of reality.
The film Dark Matter (case number 2) by Bernd Oppl and Bogomir Doringer uses architectural models in combination with ferrofluid and magnetic fields. It works with traditional cinema techniques, and physical sciences instead of software. The black liquid is floating around in the clean architectural spaces and creates a mess and temporary ornamental objects inside. It seems like a random organism which is taking over the architectural structures and it creates a mixture between uncanny and humorous scenes.
Operantium by Kamen Stoyanov is a documentation of a real 24-hours performance. It seems incredible, but all this time the artist did not stop drawing - creating one-minute sketches. The video is an animation based on the thousands of drawings created in this continuously 24-hours drawing.
The starting point for the Disco Kapa MS3 by Christoph Srb is the material which architects use for building models - the "kapa" plate. He builts some models on a spinning table. The camera moves around and between the walls. Thanks to moving light and shadow the perception of the reality is lost.The music arises during the presentation of the video in a art festival and it is a live set by Yodas Dolphins (Karl Kilian).
Boris Kostadinov