The light they see from above ... ....
The critical look at the own vaults. Augsburger Arts Award Winners 1997-2007 in H2-Center for Contemporary Art in the Glass Palace.
"The light they see from above and from the distance of a fire behind them," such harmless is in Plato's Politeia, what unfolds in the dark windows of the Gothic sacral architecture, the cords of Feininger and the palaces of modern cinema into eternally new effects.
Artists or artists should within this somewhat displeasing simile nevertheless be admitted the look on top, rear, front, right or left for a critical study of the illusion industry's vault and structure. In Bavaria, the German federal state, which forms the sacred cave mostly still unbroken also the arts maintain happy to work with this very design.
In a large-scale series of exhibitions in the most impressive art temple of Augsburg, the H2 in the glass palace in the vicinity of the City Gallery (a notable Titanic of shopping halls), since 20 November 2007 until April 2008 Augsburger Arts Award Winners are presented, the first of whome perhaps coincidentally but significantly stirs and shakes at the sacral-constructive roots of their home city of Augsburg.
Eröffnung der Ausstellungsreihe mit 3. Bürgermeisterin Eva Leipprand, Künstlerin Karin Ottman und Leiter des H2 Dr. Thomas Elsen * Installationen in der Folgeausstellung von Christian Hörl
Ottmann got the Arts Award ten years ago for unusual copy-art. She photographed factory buildings and continued them into large works of printed and enlarged copies. Sometimes she used even just everyday appliances such as washing machines, which she photographed and metabolized into copy-artworks. Even in these objects was the relationship between planning ideas, technical design principles and everyday architectures.
The newer works in the exhibition at the H2 now issued in three rooms, are also about this theoretical field - sometimes ironical-iconic with a TV between bottles, sometimes conceptually with traditional and reproductive techniques of painting for churches like the Russ drawing. Otherwise, her ornamental drawings with charcoal and pencil show stucco cornices, the monastery church of Ursberg and the church of St. George in Haunstetten, combined and intermingled with a balcony in modern living architectures, sometimes even adorned with satellite dishes.
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The newer works in the exhibition at the H2 now issued in three rooms, are also about this theoretical field - sometimes ironical-iconic with a TV between bottles, sometimes conceptually with traditional and reproductive techniques of painting for churches like the Russ drawing. Otherwise, her ornamental drawings with charcoal and pencil show stucco cornices, the monastery church of Ursberg and the church of St. George in Haunstetten, combined and intermingled with a balcony in modern living architectures, sometimes even adorned with satellite dishes. |
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This corresponds quite perfectly to the style of how the medieval art schools treated the instrumentalised, preparatory craftman's work as laboratory and interchangeable, thus largely beyond the individual and the associated value shifts. And actually, even this modern art work is designed by an exemplified reproductive technology, and a collective work, the artist Karin Ottmann, herself since 1990 lecturer at the University of Augsburg, created along with her former professor at the Academy of the Fine Arts in Munich, Prof. Thomas Zacharias.
Like all artists of the series is Karin Ottmann on Tuesday, a week after the exhibition opening, at 27.11. 07.00 pm, available for an artist interview in the H2.
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On the following Tuesday, at 04th of december 2007, also at 07.00 pm, Christian Hörl gives the three rooms of the Cabinet in H2 new requirements. This exhibition will run until 16th of december. Until now, in the H2, Hörl is represented with several works, including a photographic documentation, done together with Waltraud Funke and Gerhard Kindermann and concerned with the situation of male prisoners. In some ways it is also about existence "among men", but only because there is no compelling reference to homosexuality is not discussed as such. The artist Christian Hörl, born 1961 in Augsburg born, studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. He lives and works in Ruderatshofen (Ostallgäu) and has not only received the Augsburger art prize in 1988 but also the Art Prize of the City of Kempten (Allgäu).
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The under the heading of "physical education" resulting works of 2004 are sports equipment, ballet photographs and special architectures, with the theme "Nature and Culture", that were shown at the Kunsthalle Kempten at a solo exhibition of Hörls and in the Neue Galerie im Höhmannhaus. They would perhaps better be described as gender performance. Hörl shows in the ballet photographs muscular men in white costumes, a serious not classical element within the gestures of classical ballet dancing, probably belonging as primary issue to homosexuals and transgender sexuality. Even earlier work in the inventory of the collection of H2 thematize 'culture as surrender of inner drives' and male physicality, by the shifting within the disciplines of sculpture, installation and photography perhaps not without formal step. |
After the opening at 04.12. at 07.00 pm a conversation with the artist Christian Hörl will take place at 11th of december 07.00 pm. Then, in chronological sequence the art work of the respective winners will be shown for a period of two weeks in the cabinet room of the H2. The series, which will run until the 27th of april shows the interesting development within the Augsburger art scene since the mid-1990s.
11/20/07 – 12/02/07 Karin Ottmann (1997)
12/04/07 - 12/16/07 Christian Hörl (1998)
12/18/07 - 01/06/08 Anja Güthoff (1999)
01/08/08 - 01/20/08 Wolfgang Schenk (2000)
01/22/08 - 02/03/08 Karen Irmer (2002)
02/05/08 - 02/17/08 Frank Mardaus (2001)
02/19/08 - 03/02/08 Hans-Martin Lohrmann (2003)
03/04/08 - 03/16/08 Kunstförderpreis 2004
03/18/08 - 03/30/08 Achim Stiermann (2005)
04/01/08 - 04/13/08 Benjamin Appel (2006)
04/15/08 - 04/27/08 Natalija Ribovic (2007)
More information about the H2, address and current exhibitions:
H2 - Center for Contemporary Art
Report and photos of the exhibition: Dr. Ulrike Ritter
Persons in the opening photo from right to left: Dr. Thomas Elsen (director of the H2), Karin Ottmann (artist), Eva Leipprand (3rd Mayor and Cultural Officer)
Photo Scan "physical education" by Christian Hörl: © Christian Hörl and art collections and museums in the city of Augsburg
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