Exhibition Opening #4: Design im Fenster Event

Design im Fenster
5. Feburar - 4. März

How do we deal with an aesthetic concept of ?Before and After?? Is it appealing to see a sequence of possible imagery? outcome after action?as opposed to an isolated visual incidence. This is obviously more of a cinematic problem and less one of seriality but by addressing systems of circulation it is dealt with all the same. Like Alice?s fall, it is the boomerang?s curved line that calls for attention, and neither the landing in wonderland nor the catch of the hunting tool. How do we laugh at the world instead of joking about it? One way is to aim for the payoff instead of the punchline. Let?s think about it in social and economic terms: Since NYE local gun shops report an increase in weapons sales. Not far from the exhibition space a sign reads: Design in Windows. Many facades and the interior of some buildings are decorated with wavy lines in this town. Today it is equally the straight and the rippled line that may broadcast a sense of radicality. In our exhibition space, Rebekka Seubert mentions the relationship between decor and territorial claims. From wall to wall she draws multiple silver-colored garlands like hatchings on paper. In ?50 Ways To Set Your Table?, a video by Judy Fiskin, we see a competition in tablescaping. ?Almost inhumane,? Rebekka remarks. ?If anyone would start eating at one of these tables, it would be over soon.? Her series of photographs document the hanging of the same bag of blue-colored garlands on the same nail. The inhuman aspect of decor is picked up by Sarah Rechberger in her grid of overlapping details of living fungus. The toxicity of a magic mushroom in Brion Gysin?s drawing purports a mechanical quality. It?s a bit like measuring time in coffee sips (Jumpei Shimada). Maybe Magda Tothova?s hungry ghosts count their minutes in hefty gulps. The abrasion of shoe soles (Philip Pichler) or a furry toy (Gretchen Faust) talk about the expiration of time and covering distance. Jackie Lee?s red blank key doesn?t open shit. In contrast, the accompanying keychain is as revelatory as it may be melancholic. As it is listing every love that has passed. One poster (Maria Cozma & Johanna Odersky) can be read as signage or as one point on a demarcation line?like a piece of wall or like a door or like hands and dicks drawn with water-soluble marker (Adrian Manuel Huber) on plastic. Two figures, armed and camouflaged, (Richard Hoeck & John Miller) are as welcoming as they are detaining in their function. In addition to the beforementioned works this iteration of our exhibiton presents a painting by Vittorio Brodman, a letter by Jeana, a fountain by Philipp Köster and postcards by Jetskeee Customs.

More works on view by Ariane Koch & Sarina Scheidegger, Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff, Jakob Neulinger, Anne Speier, Joon Yeon Park, Kathrin Wojtowicz, Laura Lee Burroughs, Lisa Kuglitsch, Marina Faust, Min Yoon, Sonia Leimer.

This exhibition is made possible with the support of Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien, hufak (student union of the University of Applied Arts), Jetskeee Customs (http://jetskeee.com/), Klasse Skulptur Raum, and Schlauchtechnik Mayerhofer.