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curated by dband
11th-17th of Feb 2024 at Brick-15
Herklotzgasse 21, 1150 Vienna
The developed concept for a series of events (from 11th till 17th of February) oscillates between theater, stage design, performance, dance and music, scenography, fine arts and architecture. The specificities of various points of view and ways of looking at paintings are at the core of the established exhibition model that is being realized with the help of several infrastructures of seeing (ranging from a microscope to a webcam or a virtual camera). The room itself in this respect, doesn’t just serve the representation of objects, but is rather hosting a sequenced exhibition, scripting modes of attunement between paintings, performers, musicians and visitors via orchestrated light/sound interplay and articulation of space. A percussion performance by Marco Kleebauer amidst the arrangement of free-hanging canvases, featuring an implementation of an audio-reactive light-vibrancy marks the peak of the exhibition’s resonance between various forms of audio-visual arts.
The exhibition is entitled fehlerhaft and it showcases the work of Hallgrímur Árnason: a series of paintings by an icelandic artist, differing in scale and luring intensity that fluctuate between levels of abstraction and figuration. Through variation of texture, materiality and mixing techniques the “(im)balance of chaos” can be revealed via accentuation of the targeted view. Therefore, the focus of the curatorial concept is guided by the very way a painting is perceived: stared upon, examined, overlooked, contemplated about and maybe even [re]created further in the imaginative gaze of the observer. In other words, fehlerhaft has its goal to challenge the means by which one conceives of an art-piece nowadays, by treating the exhibition not simply as a “space design”, but as a stage[d] script for a series of mediated sights onto displayed works (paintings, performances, music-concerts) and their reception by the audience.
General Documentation Disclaimer for „fehlerhaft“:
All artworks are by Hallgrímur Árnason.
Exhibition design by dband collective -- project members: Paul Böhm, Jacob Jakubowski, Steve Nest, Max Unterfrauner.
Process documentation by dband collective.
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