1:1
17 - 21 May 2011
Friedrich Petzel Gallery is pleased to present “One to One” a series of week-long exhibitions centered around viewing. The intention of the series is to give the art viewer chance to concentrate and contemplate one image, one artwork. Each week a different artwork will be installed.
HEIMO ZOBERNIG
UNTITLED
2002
BLUEBOX, VIDEOBLAU, VIDEOROT, GREENBOX TREVIRA TELEVISO
147.64 X 196.85 INCHES
375 X 500 CM
“Untitled” continues Heimo Zobernig’s playful investigation into the formal art lexicon of the grid. His work draws upon this familiar trope of Mondrian and Minimalism, to name a few. Zobernig’s grids contain a gesture to move the painting outside of the historical network. His past works have included grid labyrinths made of linen, paintings configured in checkerboards hung as diamonds and in the case of “Untitled” a large grid made of materials for blue screen video technology, which vary in color: bluebox, videoblau, videorto, and greenbox. The artwork on display slouches as if exhausted by its own history but its material is a conduit to any and all images if manipulated in video post-production. Thus the grid becomes camouflage: present to us as an object but be seemingly invisible as an image.
HEIMO ZOBERNIG
UNTITLED
2002
BLUEBOX, VIDEOBLAU, VIDEOROT, GREENBOX TREVIRA TELEVISO
147.64 X 196.85 INCHES
375 X 500 CM
“Untitled” continues Heimo Zobernig’s playful investigation into the formal art lexicon of the grid. His work draws upon this familiar trope of Mondrian and Minimalism, to name a few. Zobernig’s grids contain a gesture to move the painting outside of the historical network. His past works have included grid labyrinths made of linen, paintings configured in checkerboards hung as diamonds and in the case of “Untitled” a large grid made of materials for blue screen video technology, which vary in color: bluebox, videoblau, videorto, and greenbox. The artwork on display slouches as if exhausted by its own history but its material is a conduit to any and all images if manipulated in video post-production. Thus the grid becomes camouflage: present to us as an object but be seemingly invisible as an image.