Glassyard Gallery @viennacontemporary 2022

Finally, we would like to offically announce that we are taking part in the Viennacontemporary art fair in 2022 as well. We will present Attila Csörgő’s and Sarah Dobai’s work from 8th until 11th Septembre at Kursalon, Vienna. Come find us at booth B16!

Opening hours of the fair:
Opening Day – Invitation only: 8 September 2022
Public Days: 9 –11 September 2022, daily 1:00 – 7:00 pm

Here you find a quick insight to the series of artworks we are going to show in Vienna:

Attila Csörgő: Collisions and Deviations, 2018

The photo series of Attila Csörgő Collisions and Deviations are inspired by Paul Klee’s pedagogical concept which claims that drawing is “an active line, moving freely, without a goal. A walk for a walk’s sake”. In his work, Csörgő used a set up of steel balls, electromagnets, various simple tools, a microcontroller and a fixed camera set to long exposure for recording the quick motion of the balls that is invisible for the naked eye. The sharp, point-like tiny spots on the steel ball’s shiny surface resulted in the appearance of motion because it was the reflection of a strong lamp illuminating the stage. If the ball is dropped, without any additional forces for modifying the path, the trajectory is simply a straight line. If we want to have more complicated motions, let’s say walks in Klee’s spirit, then we have to involve small objects to force the balls to create fascinating path-traces as drawings.

Attila Csörgő: Vicious Cubes, 2019

If we want to fold a cube from a sheet of paper, at first, the easiest way will be to cut out a shape that covers the entire surface of the cube. Then we join the corresponding edges, so that we can succeed in a few steps. But what happens if we disrupt this almost automatic process and start to match the non-fitting edges? Can another geometric solid with the same surface area and shape be created, only with the difference in their spatial appearance?

Sarah Dobai: The Overcoat, 2014

The Overcoat is a series of photographs and a photobook by Sarah Dobai which she published in 2014 in collaboration with Four Corners Books, London. The photobook consists of Nikolai Gogol’s darkly humorous short novel entitled The Overcoat from the year 1842, which is many times just referred to as the founding piece to modern literature. The short story is presented alongside Dobai’s large format photographs of shopping districts’ store vitrines from the years of financial depression. The short story and the photobook are both readable as scathing critiques of consumerism; at first glance, the photos make the viewer believe the illusions of the shop-window's spectacular perfection, just before they reveal how depressive, empty and dusty they are.

Artworks on the event cover:

Sarah Dobai: New Bond Street (From the Overcoat)
2013-15
75 x 96,5 cm

Attila Csörgő: Vicious Cube III.
2019
archival pigment print
40 x 30 cm

See you next week!

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