Kilian Rüthemann and Manuel Scheiwiller
08 Apr - 05 Jun 2011
KILIAN RÜTHEMANN AND MANUEL SCHEIWILLER
Valentine
8 April - 5 June, 2011
The Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof is proud to be able to show the Swiss artists Kilian Rüthemann (*1979) and Manuel Scheiwiller (*1984) in their first joint exhibition »Valentine«. The cooperative project was christened a female name, much like the case it often is with ships...
Kilian Rütheman was invited to develop a project in the historically steeped former first class waiting room of the Hamburg-Harburg main train station. In his works, Rüthemann engages with exhibition space through his large-scaled sculptures. He works with and on spatial conditions, adding and removing elements and thus the exhibition space becomes an all-encompassing sculpture, a three-dimensional tableau. A central moment of Rüthemanns sculptured interferences is the archaic character or rather the perceptible physicality, which refers to a preceding action. The artistic process stays consistently perceptible, thereby showing his comprehension of „sculpture as action“.
For the joint exhibition at the Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Kilian Rüthemann chose Manuel Scheiwiller, who studies under Christian Jankowski and Rainer Ganal, to be his counterpart. Both approaches from the artists are in opposition to each other: For the trained dancer Schweiwiller physicality equates to material and media. His performances become sculptural, finally culminating into still life. Therefore his work can be characterized by a comprehension of „action as sculpture“, converse to Rüthemanns. In this diametric way of dealing with physicality the two artists create in their team-play a productive dynamism in the field of tension between process and object.
In »Valentine« the artists grapple with moments of encounters and dialogue between two elements. These can be seen as observations of negotiation processes between two disparate materials or persons. In this context relationships between subjects as well as the relations between present and absent elements are observed. Rüthemann and Schweiwiller move within a triangle of space – material – body, whose contents are negotiated in the process.
Valentine
8 April - 5 June, 2011
The Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof is proud to be able to show the Swiss artists Kilian Rüthemann (*1979) and Manuel Scheiwiller (*1984) in their first joint exhibition »Valentine«. The cooperative project was christened a female name, much like the case it often is with ships...
Kilian Rütheman was invited to develop a project in the historically steeped former first class waiting room of the Hamburg-Harburg main train station. In his works, Rüthemann engages with exhibition space through his large-scaled sculptures. He works with and on spatial conditions, adding and removing elements and thus the exhibition space becomes an all-encompassing sculpture, a three-dimensional tableau. A central moment of Rüthemanns sculptured interferences is the archaic character or rather the perceptible physicality, which refers to a preceding action. The artistic process stays consistently perceptible, thereby showing his comprehension of „sculpture as action“.
For the joint exhibition at the Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Kilian Rüthemann chose Manuel Scheiwiller, who studies under Christian Jankowski and Rainer Ganal, to be his counterpart. Both approaches from the artists are in opposition to each other: For the trained dancer Schweiwiller physicality equates to material and media. His performances become sculptural, finally culminating into still life. Therefore his work can be characterized by a comprehension of „action as sculpture“, converse to Rüthemanns. In this diametric way of dealing with physicality the two artists create in their team-play a productive dynamism in the field of tension between process and object.
In »Valentine« the artists grapple with moments of encounters and dialogue between two elements. These can be seen as observations of negotiation processes between two disparate materials or persons. In this context relationships between subjects as well as the relations between present and absent elements are observed. Rüthemann and Schweiwiller move within a triangle of space – material – body, whose contents are negotiated in the process.