ACFNY RECOMMENDS | EXHIBITION | SOLITAIRE FREEZE

EXHIBITION OPENING JUL 21, 7-9PM

In collaboration with Galerie allerArt in Bludenz, Austria, ARTJAIL is pleased to introduce Solitaire Freeze, a show including works by Austrian artists Christoph Aigner, Marko Zink, Ruth Schnell, and Alfred Graf. This exhibition is Part 2 of an exchange project between ARTJAIL and Galerie allerArt in Austria. ARTJAIL’s “We Come From Brooklyn” is being exhibited in Galerie allerArt from July 16th until August 21st.

Christoph Aigner’s work „Movement Through A Series Towards Word,” documents and completes a series of exhibitions about language done over the past few years. This work is organized in stations along a pattern. At each station along this pattern a new discovery is unfolded. These discoveries consist of photographs and short texts concerning „arcs“ and „changes“ throughout the creative process. Each new stage, hub, node, crossing, or place is created from a „movement“ that occurs in congruency with words. Often the words define the movement and often the movement evokes the words. The combination of these unfolding discoveries and the connecting framework create a larger diagrammatic drawing.

Marko Zink‘s photographs are from an analogue series titled „Schwimmer” made between 2004 and 2010. Marko creates emotional photographic aphorisms, which he – in contrast to their hinted character – freshly defines with every series. He works on the unexposed analogue film before he actually uses it. That way unforeseen effects – mostly of rather soft and blurred nature – are created, which give his works an enormous picturesque quality. This explicit procedure constitutes an important aspect of the complete work, is extremely elaborate and constantly varies with each series. www.markozink.com

Ruth Schnell – As part of the light generated series of pictures, these pieces of work entitled „Patterns of Perception” revels Ruth Schnell ́s varied exploration and investigation of artificial light. She investigates problematic issues of immaterial light on a physical, conceptual and design-based level by aestheticising the creation of a monochrome-red panel picture. Here, a bar of white LEDs has been vertically inserted into the smooth translucent screen. When the viewer looks away quickly, the bar of light generates various words which form the image of a spatial hologram for fractions of seconds at a time. Hence Ruth Schnell operates with the phenomenon of after-image that is produced on the retina and decoded by the brain. The letters produced by high frequency impulses which flicker across the bar of light are only recognizable as such if the viewer deliberately looks away from rather than directly at the image. The conceptual selection of some 100 key words occurs in a critical questioning of social, economic and socio-political conditions. The artistic process here is reminiscent of the flood of catastrophic reports which appear daily on TV screens but can only be perceived as ephemeral information – information that develops an aesthetic impact akin of after-images in the subconscious. (Christa Steinle)

Alfred Graf – For years Graf researched the sediments and rock formations ofVorarlberg and other countrysides in depictive form. He was hereby scientist, artist and curator in one: On the one hand, he painstakingly collected the different essences of the topography such as sands and rocks, pollen and beeswax and processed them alchemically in his atelier. On the other hand, as an artist he wished to bring the materials themselves as directly and as uninfluenced as possible into the picture. His work is therefore the paradoxical attempt—via much artifice and artfulness—to leave nature as is. The substances of the world in Grafʼs paintings and installations are meant to be self-depictive, to make visible the systematics and structures that are inherent in them; and yet the resulting work is, to the core, ʻnaturallyʼ artificial.

Image by Marko Zink.

VENUE
ARTJAIL Gallery
50 Eldridge St., 6th Floor
New York, NY 10002

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