Schaufenster, literally "look window", is the German word for shop window. This SCHAU FENSTER aims to be a window into other galleries, ateliers, and curator brains around the globe. Further insights coming up!
showing Daniel Pasteiner.
DANIEL PASTEINER, Generating X, 2009, wood, optic colored lights, and perspex, 87 x 60 x 11 cm
Installation view at SCHAU FENSTER, Rotwandstr. corner of Müllerstr., Zürich
Installation view at SCHAU FENSTER, Rotwandstr. corner of Müllerstr., Zürich
"You see a dot on the horizon...and it could be superman...but then it just turns out to be a plane or something."*
As long as it remains that dot, the possibility for the fantastic remains. Daniel Pasteiner is trying to remain in this space, as perhaps we all are. His minimal interventions on materials such as ready made canvasses, or the waterfall machine are framing devices, a few lines or blobs of paint demarcate the space of art - a form of territorial pissing- where we might look for transcendence, even perhaps find it, in the nothing that is outlined.
As long as it remains that dot, the possibility for the fantastic remains. Daniel Pasteiner is trying to remain in this space, as perhaps we all are. His minimal interventions on materials such as ready made canvasses, or the waterfall machine are framing devices, a few lines or blobs of paint demarcate the space of art - a form of territorial pissing- where we might look for transcendence, even perhaps find it, in the nothing that is outlined.
Excerpt from: Art and the Anti-World by Robin Bales.
*Quote from Daniel Pasteiner in conversation with the writer, January 2008
The quatrefoil as an element in Gothic architecture and book illumination is considered a symbol of the terrestrial, but also an emblem of the divine. In the same way, the two general artistic tendencies to which Pasteiner is aligned can be seen as an allusion to the worldly (objet trouvé) and the sublime (abstract painting). Profane, often nostalgic, everyday items such as toys, vinyl records and an exercise machine from the 1980s are arranged by the artist into new assemblages and formulated in colour, sparking their transcendence into mystical art objects. The technicized sculptures, however, seem more to conjure up an association with a mysterious science-fiction universe than with a world of medieval mysticism. This impression is underlined by the use of illuminated neon tubes, light bulbs and similar light effects. Excerpt from: Twilight in the Anti-World by Christiane Büntgen
(Press release for exhibition at Suzie Q Projects, 2009)
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