Wire.Clay.Fabric.
Less is more.
Mies van der Rohe
In March 2023, the Viennese BURN-IN Gallery invites you to the group exhibition Myth & Minimalism: Insights into the World of Forms | Wire.Clay.Fabric. with the artists Markus Moser, Cordelia Lehmann-Reinthaller and Linda Steinthórsdóttir.
Markus Moser stands for his figurative wire art, Cordelia Lehmann-Reinthaller for her mysteriously entwined fired raku and ceramics and Linda Steinthórsdóttir for her monochrome, sometimes iridescent, from the polar light influenced material compositions of the other world.
Common to the three artists is the great creative vision and expressive mode of expression and this despite the work with the different media wire, clay and fabric. If one questions the congruence of wire art, minimalism and raku, unexpected, surprising aspects open up. The art style of minimalism limits itself to the essential and does without unnecessary details. Clear aesthetics are in the foreground. In a similar way, wire art relies on puristic forms and lines. Moser stages empty space and gives it a stringent form. Raku is a traditional Japanese technique in which ceramics are fired in a special kiln. What makes it special: The glowing hot artwork is removed from the kiln and interacts with sawdust, paper, smoke and flames. The result is unique works inspired by chance, enchanting by their imperfection. These coincidences are also found in Steinthórsdóttir's works. Her monochrome natural landscapes grow out of plastic folds and Icelandic volcanic earths. Moser surprises with absurd and ostensibly forbidden elements, which he places randomly and most delightfully in his welded wire worlds.
With this BURN-IN show, the Vienna gallery opens up to its visitors the myth of minimalism and the immense appeal of reduced forms.
Vernissage & Program
BURN-IN invites you to the exhibition opening on 17.03.2023, 18-20 h.
Location
BURN-IN Gallery at Gerngross 2. OG | 1070 Vienna, Mariahilfer Straße 42-48
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Minimalism in Art & Lifestyle
Minimalism is trending. The worldwide movement is anchoring itself in many areas of life and has been transforming art, architecture, design, psychology and business for several years. An ever-growing crowd sympathizes with this way of life characterized by conscious handling and renunciation, especially in times of sustainability.
Less is more - with this oxymoron, Mies van der Rohe already deliberately relied on a linguistic error of meaning, in which he works with contradictory terms. How right he is.
In art, minimalism (beginning in the early 1960s) strives for objectivity, schematic clarity, logic and depersonalization, on the reduction of simple and clear, mostly geometric basic structures. According to Donald Judd's ideas, minimalism is supposed to give plastic form to color, to have an effect in space.
The works shown in the BURN-IN exhibition Myth & Minimalism: Insights into the World of Forms | Wire.Clay.Fabric. shown bring the independent positions of Markus Moser, Cordelia Lehmann-Reinthaller and Linda Steinthórsdóttir in front of the curtain and transform the atypical art space into an El Dorado, which convinces with its clear, mostly monochrome lines, structures and surfaces and breathes new life into the myth of minimalism.
A wonderful journey right into the heart of minimal art.
