Kirsten Pieroth, Carla Ahlander, Tue Greenfort, Massimo Grimaldi, Diego Perrone, Gernot Wieland

• 23.01.–06.03.2004

In the gallery’s upper level we are showing the group exhibition Prisma, curated by Andreas Huber, with works by Carla Ahlander (SWE), Tue Greenfort (DK), Massimo Grimaldi (I), Diego Perrone (I), Kirsten Pieroth (D), Gernot Wieland (A).

As opposed to the notion of art in the expanded field, this exhibition addresses the condensed position in current art production. This can be expressed in traditional art forms such as drawing, sculpture, video or photography; a visual transposition of relevant societal issues, however, predominates. The works are characterised by the artists creating (self-)references to life, and query the separation of art from life, or the playful circumvention thereof.
Diego Perrone, for example, digs each day for several months in his parents’ yard; he documents the hole, ultimately 6 meters deep, with a series of photographs (I Pensatori di Buchi). Kirsten Pieroth shows the video Untitled (on the occasion of the exhibition’s opening night, Kirsten Pieroth drives the wrong way down a one-way street which leads to the site of the exhibition). The prerequisite and integral component is, as a matter of course, cognizance of the gamut of contextual approaches over the last few years.
Personal views are contrasted by scientific descriptivism; poetic, sometimes lyrical and intuitive approaches predominate. There is a propensity for the nostalgic-subversive touch.

Arvo Pärt’s compositions are often described as “prismatic”. This refers to a lightness in the sense of luminosity. They’re about shattering reality and the different, often minimal shifts, or our particular perception thereof, that qualify a piece as a work of art.