My Personal Rockets, 1999; clay hand built; 5 parts, each: 140 x ø 30–54 cm
Galerie Eboran, Salzburg; Courtesy: MUSA Vienna; photo: Bele Marx
My Personal Rockets, 1999; clay hand built; 5 parts, each: 140 x ø 30–54 cm
Galerie Eboran, Salzburg; Courtesy: MUSA Vienna; photo: Bele Marx
Sleeping Along, 1998; porcellaine, plexiglass; 20 parts, each 30 x 40 cm
Kunstbunker Tumulka, Munich; photo: Siegfried Wameser
O.T., 2002; photo on alu-dibond; 160 x 104 cm
My Personal Rockets & sleeping along
, Galerie Eboran, Salzburg, 1999
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The perception of reality, its different appearance and the questioning of valid notions of reality are characteristic of the artist’s early work in particular. "Sleeping along …" from 1998, a suspended sculptural installation in which porcelain fish swim about in a transparent bubble, offers a snapshot view of an existential view of reality. In this piece the artist has created a psychological portrait of being a prisoner of one’s one idea of reality which struggles with the knowledge of an outer reality without being able to break out of an inner refuge. The communication between both states of reality is based on a sublimated level where the perception of the other is thrown back to the perceiving I. "It has to do with wanting something, being awake and getting away from it all, it has to do with being caught up in one’s own sense of reality which, if one gets too caught up in it, is almost like being asleep." (Julie Hayward)
The metaphorical escape from the ego-centric reality that recedes into the background succeeds in "My Personal Rockets", 1999. Here the "personal rockets" undergo metamorphoses that remain in various states between fish and rocket. This spectrum of expressive forms ranges from something covered with gills or held at bay by a ring to the powerful rocket ready to be launched – forms that gradually seem to fight their way to freedom. In addition to the power of escape, there is also a potential for aggression that comes to bear. This potential can assume both productive and destructive connotations.
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cited from:
The Parallel Worlds of Emotional and Unconscious Realms
Sabine Schaschl-Cooper
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The perception of reality, its different appearance and the questioning of valid notions of reality are characteristic of the artist’s early work in particular. "Sleeping along …" from 1998, a suspended sculptural installation in which porcelain fish swim about in a transparent bubble, offers a snapshot view of an existential view of reality. In this piece the artist has created a psychological portrait of being a prisoner of one’s one idea of reality which struggles with the knowledge of an outer reality without being able to break out of an inner refuge. The communication between both states of reality is based on a sublimated level where the perception of the other is thrown back to the perceiving I. "It has to do with wanting something, being awake and getting away from it all, it has to do with being caught up in one’s own sense of reality which, if one gets too caught up in it, is almost like being asleep." (Julie Hayward)
The metaphorical escape from the ego-centric reality that recedes into the background succeeds in "My Personal Rockets", 1999. Here the "personal rockets" undergo metamorphoses that remain in various states between fish and rocket. This spectrum of expressive forms ranges from something covered with gills or held at bay by a ring to the powerful rocket ready to be launched – forms that gradually seem to fight their way to freedom. In addition to the power of escape, there is also a potential for aggression that comes to bear. This potential can assume both productive and destructive connotations.
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cited from:
The Parallel Worlds of Emotional and Unconscious Realms
Sabine Schaschl-Cooper
read entire text
