Josef Dabernig
27 Jun - 27 Sep 2014
© Josef Dabernig
3x3 - exhibition view, Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna, 27.6. – 26.7.2014 and 2.9. - 27.9.2014, photo: Josef Dabernig
3x3 - exhibition view, Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna, 27.6. – 26.7.2014 and 2.9. - 27.9.2014, photo: Josef Dabernig
JOSEF DABERNIG
3x3
27 June - 26 July and 2 - 27 September 2014
The gallery is closed in August
Andreas Huber is delighted to announce Josef Dabernig's third exhibition at the gallery, entitled 3x3.
For Dabernig, space represents a category that transcends media, no matter how diverse his means of artistic expression. Here he positions himself as a director of the third dimension. We find ourselves, as it were, on the set of the Galerie Andreas Huber, in a scenario made up of the entrance lobby, three exhibition rooms, a private office, and two restrooms on the second floor of a nineteenth-century apartment block. The three rooms used to present the art with their roughly square floor plans are lined up in a row and each have two windows facing the street.
The relation between Josef Dabernig's exhibition and this setting is equally confident and restrained. Three orthogonal spatial sculptures are integrated into the three exhibition spaces, playing with the tension between presence and absence. The objects produced from staggered wooden boards both provide a sense of dimension and serve as a catalyst for the dramaturgy of movement. They survey the courses of movement well beyond the rooms that contain them.
By means of divisions into quarters and halves in the form of the most simple sculptural intervention, the three gallery rooms become dramaturgically charged. Pseudo-spaces made of timber themselves become agents in their relation to the visitors, calling into question not only the relation between interior and exterior, but also that of subject and object. Sculptures acquires a filmic level in which it toys with stage directions as a tool of illusion.
3x3
27 June - 26 July and 2 - 27 September 2014
The gallery is closed in August
Andreas Huber is delighted to announce Josef Dabernig's third exhibition at the gallery, entitled 3x3.
For Dabernig, space represents a category that transcends media, no matter how diverse his means of artistic expression. Here he positions himself as a director of the third dimension. We find ourselves, as it were, on the set of the Galerie Andreas Huber, in a scenario made up of the entrance lobby, three exhibition rooms, a private office, and two restrooms on the second floor of a nineteenth-century apartment block. The three rooms used to present the art with their roughly square floor plans are lined up in a row and each have two windows facing the street.
The relation between Josef Dabernig's exhibition and this setting is equally confident and restrained. Three orthogonal spatial sculptures are integrated into the three exhibition spaces, playing with the tension between presence and absence. The objects produced from staggered wooden boards both provide a sense of dimension and serve as a catalyst for the dramaturgy of movement. They survey the courses of movement well beyond the rooms that contain them.
By means of divisions into quarters and halves in the form of the most simple sculptural intervention, the three gallery rooms become dramaturgically charged. Pseudo-spaces made of timber themselves become agents in their relation to the visitors, calling into question not only the relation between interior and exterior, but also that of subject and object. Sculptures acquires a filmic level in which it toys with stage directions as a tool of illusion.