PLANK & POSCHAUKO - CONVITE DE GUE SCHMIDT

WIDE WILD SPACEpresents

SIGMUND PLEASURE STARDUST

PLANK & POSCHAUKO

OPENING: MITTWOCH, 21. Mai 2014, 19:00 Uhr
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION: Gue Schmidt (MAG3)

DURATION: 22/05 - 11/06/2014
OPENING HOURS: THURSDAY - FRIDAY | 05:00 P.M. - 08:00 P.M.

MAG3, SCHIFFAMTSGASSE 17, A 1020 VIENNA

www.nammkhah.at/Mag3/index.html

(Accessible by U2 Taborstrasse or U4 Schottenring/ exit U2 Herminengasse)

This is an installation realised in the media mural painting, drawing, painting, photography, collage, video projections, sound, objects, material fill, etc.

SIGMUND PLEASURE STARDUST deals with the areas of psychoanalysis, cosmology and synaesthesia, resulting in works of art with surrealistic alienations.

The subtitle WIDE WILD SPACE refers to the Wide White Space in Antwerp, Belgium, which was founded by Annie De Decker and Bernd Lohaus in the 1970ies. This space was a symbol for free and avant-garde, non-commercially oriented thinking and acting and was implemented by artists like Marcel Broodthaers, James Lee Byars, Josef Beuys, Bernd Lohaus, etc.

Plank & Poschauko's contemporary romanticism reveals itself as an art of the subjective, the emotional and the transcendent. Their uneasiness with what is ordinary leads them to a search for ways out, for possibilities of change and transcendence by means of an extraordinarily intense experience of reality.

Many of their works are aimed against the destruction of nature and culture by our consumer society. Plank & Poschauko's approach is conceptual and poetic and they work dialogically in very different media such as installation, performance, video, painting and sculpture.