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Valentin Carron, Anne-Lise Coste, David Hominal, Fabian Marti, Tobias Madison, Emanuel Rossetti, Pamela Rosenkranz (4.04.-16.05.2009) Music: Kamp!, Kwadratowi, Polpo Motel, Przepraszam, Adam Repucha, DJ Wiktor Skok, DJ Ctrl Alt (3-5.04.2009) | |||
Galeria Raster Willa ¯oliborz The title of the show derives from a science fiction film directed by Paul W. Anderson. Event Horizon is also an astrophysical term describing an interface within a black hole from which information cannot escape. The show involves seven emerging Swiss artists. Coming from and living in different areas of the country, they work in a constant cultural and intellectual dialogue. Although they have different backgrounds and conceptual approaches, there is a strong link between their practices. The artists form a new intellectual collective, creating a unique language and meaning. Apart from the works exhibited at Raster gallery the artists will be performing and showing films at the villa rented by Raster Gallery especially for that purpose.
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Programme Friday, 3.04 Saturday, 4.04 Willa ¯oliborz, Pogonowskiego 22 Sunday, 5.04 Saturday, 16.05 non stop: Tickets for the evening events at Willa ¯oliborz sold at Raster or at the Willa before concerts. Limited number of tickets. |
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Contributing Artists | |||
VALENTIN CARRON (*1977) uses formal tropes and material displacement to question art's utility and its place in the public sphere. He creates works with stark graphics and a succinctly intellectual approach. Often the motives are taken from his hometown Martigny - e.g. Christian crosses, mountains or wooden beams or they refer in a humorous manner to Swiss culture and art history, like his sculpture of a golf-playing Giacometti-figure.
At the heart of DAVID HOMINAL's (*1976) work lies a dream of painting, of "Grand Peinture" even, as if it were still a heroic undertaking. Hominal vehemently inscribes himself in the art-historical canon to claim for himself a place among famous painters like Goya and Velazquez (his personal heroes). He doesn't list modern or contemporary names but rather refers to these paradigmatic figures in the history of painting. Not Hominal pays homage to his "masters", he also fights against the aspirations of heroism or typical "high culture seriousness" by bringing in what was outlawed and by relating to the notions of opposition and transgression.
ANNE-LISE COSTE's (*1973) main medium is drawing. From A4-sized papers to walls (like in a graffito or mural painting) she uses different porters for her witty and poetic cribbles. In her works text and image melt in a calligraphic manner, they complement and comment on each other. Coste's playful questions on life bear an existential meaning and give her work a poetic depth. Often the character of her surveys is rebellious, questioning the mechanisms of power.
PAMELA ROSENKRANZ(*1979) artworks could be described as
interventions effecting in shifts in the perception of space. Related
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TOBIAS MADISON (*1985) works with various media, which always encircle the idea and the concept of the image as an existing cultural value as well as its contemporary function. One of his essays about methods and strategies of cultural production was called "Production as a Spectacle". He mixes contemporary strategies of production coming from a design discourse with more nostalgic ones (e.g. theft). All his personal craftsmanship is digital, the final work is just a product, a copy of the digital idea. Tobias Madison is the founder of the exhibition space New Jerseyy (with Daniel Baumann, Emanuel Rossetti and Dan Solbach), The Ettore Sottsass Museum (with Martin Jaeggi and Emanuel Rossetti) and the publishing project Used Future (with Emanuel Rossetti and Dan Solbach). Sometimes he takes on the role of Tobias Radisson, a famous french Masterthief.
Dealing with questions of landscape photography EMANUEL ROSETTI (*1987) mostly works in the urban environment. Working on very strict concepts, his photographs and drawings are often based on repetitive topologies, presented as framed c-prints, huge inkjets or projections. Collaborating with artist Mathis Altmann, Emanuel Rossetti is working on various ongoing book projects, dealing with contemporary distribution possibilities. Being part of the Basel-based Art Space New Jerseyy, the publishing house Used Future and The Ettore Sottsass Museum, Rossetti acts as a curator, organising exhibitions and publications.
The artistic method of FABIAN MARTI (*1979) is based on the use of
scanner and analogue photography. The procedure to reach a picture
via the detour of scanning makes traces like dust, and scratches
become an important physical element too, in spite of technical
precision. And this is exactly what makes Marti's photography so
uncommon. His photography is about a mysterious haptic presence. His
symbolism, or esoteric signs, as in "The Rise", a photograph showing a
magnified golden thumb on black ground. "The System", "The
Inspiration", or "The Future" (all of 2008) seem as if Marti wanted to
re-edit the tarot cards of Alistair Crowley.
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Karma International has been founded by Karolina Dankow and Marina
Leuenberger in September 2006 in Zurich as a platform for
international emerging artists never before shown in Switzerland. In autumn 2008 Karma International changed its status
and since then has worked as a commercial gallery representing selected artists. | |||
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