Wolfgang Plöger
23 Oct - 21 Nov 2009
WOLFGANG PLöGER
"Dept Of Correction"
October 23 - November 21, 2009
Opening: Friday, October 23 2009, 6 - 9 pm
After having his first German solo presentation at Konrad Fischer Galerie in Berlin in 2007, Wolfgang Plöger introduces new, large-scale film installations based on Super8 and 16mm original film material. His „Drei Farben Grau“ („Three Colours Grey“) joins three different 16mm films inscribed by the artist directly onto the reel. „Profiler“ is based on two Super8 projections: single sequences of images and text are morphing into a homogenic image. The artist used white paper and transparent strips as a projection screen. „Der Wind“ has been made of four different Super8 film loops showing short animated clips the artist refers to as an „archive of virtual simultaneity“: in every single sequence ordinary objects – like a curtain ort he smoke of a cigarette – by a light breeze.
Wolfgang Plöger’s table-sculptures and his „transport boxes for shadows“ are enigmatic, poetical and playful examinations of the inter-relation between sculpture and pedestal. The artist questions the sculptural potential of banal objects from every-day life like, for example, tables.
The works of Wolfgang Plöger have been on show at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, at Vienna MUMOK, at Malm Konsthall, at West London Projects and recently at the Art Institute of Chicago. In November 2009 a solo presentation at Künstlerhaus Bremen will follow.
"Dept Of Correction"
October 23 - November 21, 2009
Opening: Friday, October 23 2009, 6 - 9 pm
After having his first German solo presentation at Konrad Fischer Galerie in Berlin in 2007, Wolfgang Plöger introduces new, large-scale film installations based on Super8 and 16mm original film material. His „Drei Farben Grau“ („Three Colours Grey“) joins three different 16mm films inscribed by the artist directly onto the reel. „Profiler“ is based on two Super8 projections: single sequences of images and text are morphing into a homogenic image. The artist used white paper and transparent strips as a projection screen. „Der Wind“ has been made of four different Super8 film loops showing short animated clips the artist refers to as an „archive of virtual simultaneity“: in every single sequence ordinary objects – like a curtain ort he smoke of a cigarette – by a light breeze.
Wolfgang Plöger’s table-sculptures and his „transport boxes for shadows“ are enigmatic, poetical and playful examinations of the inter-relation between sculpture and pedestal. The artist questions the sculptural potential of banal objects from every-day life like, for example, tables.
The works of Wolfgang Plöger have been on show at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, at Vienna MUMOK, at Malm Konsthall, at West London Projects and recently at the Art Institute of Chicago. In November 2009 a solo presentation at Künstlerhaus Bremen will follow.