February 2001
New acquisitions from Armleder to Zittel
John M Armleder, Daniele Buetti, Sylvie Fleury, Joseph Kosuth, Gerold Miller, Kirsten Mosher, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Ugo Rondinone, Franz Erhard Walther, Andrea Zittel
Gerold Miller, Sylvie Fleurie, Kirsten Mosher
Andrea Zittel
John M Armleder
Franz Erhard Walther
Gerwald Rockenschaub
Franz Erhard Walther
*1939 in Fulda, lives in HamburgBlock Blau, 1993
cotton fabric, 9 parts
"Block Blau, embedded in the Configurations work group: I leaves the viewer to define the work. As a block on the wall: image and body at the same time. The exploded block articulates the wall. Also the parts relate to each other and at the same time to the proportions on the wall. The way the sections are arranged is determined by both. Where the parts find their way on to all the walls of an empty room, the room will be articulated graphically and sculpturally.
Block Blau - the block on the wall as store. The idea of use. Colour, proportion, material, the enclosure of air. Image, three-dimensional. In the mind. In space. Bound in scale and material. Transition. The exploded block will articulate the wall. The exploded block wanders over the walls and speaks in the space. Image and body both relate to this at the same time. Transitions. Fragment. The work in the head and in the space at the same time. Plastic drawing."(F.E.W.)
Gerwald Rockenschaub
*1952 in Linz, lives in BerlinColor foil on Alucore, 1999
Aluminium Frame, Unique ObjectAn ironic recourse to Minimal Art, technical aspects and work with visual codes from the everyday world is central to Gerwald Rockenschaub's new colour foil images.
The artist develops "abstracts motifs which are read as data, cut out from color foils and mounted on Alucore. The image that appears is no longer based on color as the original material, but it has already been industrially prefabricated.
The use of this method causes the traces of hand-made work to disappear even more completely than in his earlier silk-screen prints: the image created is an expression of a visual culture which is no longer capable of designing without the use of electronic communication technology and its appropriate devices. The media painting is code enough." (Harald Fricke in: cat. G.R. Galerie Georg Kargl, Wien)
