Four Austrian artists examine language in text-based artworks.
Eva Beirheimer and Miriam Laussegger
www.art-words.net
Jochen Holler www.jochenhoeller.com
Roman Pfeffer
Austrian Cultural Forum London www.acflondon.org
Exhibition on until 15 Nov 2013
Eva Beirheimer and Miriam Laussegger have collected art-words and made them into wallpaper and an inter-active installation. www.art-words.net
The words on the wall are a dense sea swimming before my eyes. Picking out words I read: the point of departure visual discourse visual language thematic ornateness spatial interaction extra disciplinary
online meduim as an exhibition space trans-disciplinary two-dimensional
determining influences formal elements questioning contexts
de-contextualisation dialectical aesthetics conceptual tool
contemporary image production self-ironic performative optimal rhizome
Then I move on to the five suspended signs made out of plexi-glas, mirror and digital print. I have not got a clue what they mean. And I think that is the point.
Though I do recall reading something similar in an art journal! Here's what they say:
The intertextual permeability envelops the meta-discursive co-existence of definitions.
The bilateral space between art discourses denotes the parallel internal argumentation.
The interstitial movement modifies the background information.
The result is a complex perception that enfolds beyond the absence of views.
The simultaneity of views - due to fragmentary gaps - develops multilayered information.
Moving upstairs I look closely at Jochen Holler's collages on large black card. All of the text has been cut out of books. I like "karl marx-capital (labour/money)" best. It consists of two triangular mounds: labour and money. Each of his collages is comprised of cut out words and has a pictorial aspect.
www.jochenhoeller.com
Roman Pfeffer references the incident where Robert Rauschenberg erased a drawing by Willem de Kooning. This incident has been written as a piece of descriptive text and printed seven times. One framed print shows the complete text, the other six have been covered in pencil so that just the key words are visible (one phrase visible in each framed print).
completing the task
act of destruction
erasure as form
eliminate the drawing
difficult to erase
terrible erasure
In this exhibition text has been reworked and this has altered the meaning and perception. It raises questions and challenges assumptions.
www.acflondon.org
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