Julie Ryan: The Red Thread – Terminkalender

Participating artists:

Kevin Baker, Josef Bauer, Johann Fruhmann, Michael Huey, Laurent Montaron, Ute Müller, Jonathan Quinn, Jef Scharf, Ursula Schneider,Tamuna Sirbiladze, Rita Vitorelli, Herwig Weiser, Rachel Wilberforce

Participating artists:

The Red Thread

The Red Thread was conceived as a flexible exhibition format, and has previously been shown in NYC at the Educational Alliance and a private Gallery in Seattle, WA. Originally The Red Thread served as a connective concept that surveyed various ‘threads’ in the international Vienna art scene: In its current incarnation at Dana Charkasi Galerie The Red Thread again serves as a conduit to the current Vienna art scene while also reaching to the gallery’s own past with the inclusion of Joseph Bauer and Johann Fruhmann, who showed at ‘Galerie im Griechenbeisl’ that was run by Dana Charkasi’s aunt Christa Hauer in the same building the 1960s.

Now, by reflecting to a historical past of the space, The Red Thread continues the link to contemporary artists working in Vienna today as well as certain theoretical and aesthetic threads that expand the breadth of the show and serve to define this space in Vienna as an engaging gallery for contemporary artists. both in Vienna and internationally.

In doing this, artists like Rachel Wilberforce, a London and France based artist, exhibits photographs of interiors culled from her own family archives. Wilberforce works with ideas of re-staging and reworking personal histories into modern variations. The thread connects her to long time Vienna based artist Michael Huey, who also works with family and found images to generate his photos and, for the first time, in a short film. This film is a reworking of his grandfather’s slight of hand for the camera. Both artists seek minute details and juxtapositions in archival imagery.

Julie Ryan: The Red Thread Event