Confetti machine |
Cooking wagon |
—Confetti machine
2009
Wood, compressor, sensor, tubes, confetti
Box: 56 x 40 x 23 cm; electronic system: 20 x 40 x 14cm
When viewers trigger a sensor placed at the entrance, they suddenly find themselves standing in a colorful rain of confetti, falling into their hair and the room. Like an interlude with a clown with audience participation, the installation aims to surprise the viewer, who suddenly becomes part of the circus and their colorful hair decoration causes others to smile quietly.
—Cooking wagon
2009
Wood, steel, lamps, wok, gas burner, fog machine
263 x 264 x 87 cm
The artist emerges from behind his mobile kitchen in a dense cloud of smoke, lending magical aspects to the quotidian preparation of food in a performance. The prepared ingredients, the frying, the boiling and the sautéing are staged, thanks to the lighting and loudspeakers, sometimes dramatically, sometimes humorously and sometimes acrobatically, and the steaming dishes are distributed to courageous viewers in handy portions.
Biography
* 1976 in Graz
1993 Ortweinschule, Graz
1999–2005 Hochschule für angewandte Kunst, Vienna
Lives and works in Vienna and Berlin
Selected solo exhibitions
—2009
Galerie für Gegenwartskunst, Barbara Claassen-Schmal, Bremen
Galerie Münsterland, Emsdetten
Vera Cortês Art Agency, Lisbon
—2008
Galerie Krobath Wimmer, Vienna
Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Studio, Graz
—2007
Parrotta Contemporary Art, Berlin
Selected group exhibitions
—2009
BubbleMania – Das Seifenblasenfestival, phaeno, Wolfsburg
ALTITUDE, Galerie für Gegenwartskunst, Barbara Claassen-Schmal, Bremen
—2008
Open Sky, Räume jenseits ihrer Praxis, Schloss Kalsdorf, Ilz
In(e)motion, Projektraum Viktor Bucher, Vienna
—2007
Gott. Geld. Kunst. Kapital. – Public Kitchen / Werk Stadt Küche, Artneuland, Berlin
MASCHINE, Parrotta Contemporary Art, Stuttgart
—2006
Agostinelli | Wuschitz | Van Duijne | Frey, Projektraum Viktor Bucher, Vienna
Visum et Repertum, Stella Art Foundation, Moskow
—2005
Bétonsalon - Quartier 21, Museumsquartier, Vienna
The Essence, MAK - Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna
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Confetti machine |
Cooking wagon |