Werner Feiersinger

The work of the Austrian sculptor and photographer Werner Feiersinger (born 1966 in Brixlegg, lives and works in Vienna) is embedded in a complex network of architectural, art-historical and personal references. His sculpture flirts with the status of designer object or architectural model, with the formal language of modernism and minimal art, without being absorbed by them.

Feiersinger is interested in the disruptions and contradictions that ambivalent objects and photographs of the well known can provoke. Through varying his point of view he brings out surprising and unconventional aspects. His sculptures seem to imply an obvious use; they evoke associations of tools or mass-produced items – from portable umbrella stands to sunbeds to robot worms – until they turn out to be utterly non-functional. Feiersinger’s works are autonomous objects with no utility value, and they deny the media level of commercialism; they take stock of the mystification of modernism.

This book introduces Feiersinger’s recent work and elucidates his concern with questions of singularity, the relationship between object and space, and artistic manufacture in comparison to industrial production. The publication contains an extended essay by the Berlin-based author Kirsty Bell.

€ 25