Gerwald Rockenschaub
16 Apr - 04 Sep 2011
© Gerwald Rockenschaub
View to the exhibition "Gerwald Rockenschaub. multidial" at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (16.04. - 04.09.2011) with the work:
Untitled, 2010/2011, wall with 385 subjects: color foil, emulsion paint, plywood on aluminum construction, 1040 x 6610 x 60 cm, Courtesy Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin/Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna/Galerie Susanna Kulli, Zurich/Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg/Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich/Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, Salzburg
Photo: Sebastian Wulf
View to the exhibition "Gerwald Rockenschaub. multidial" at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (16.04. - 04.09.2011) with the work:
Untitled, 2010/2011, wall with 385 subjects: color foil, emulsion paint, plywood on aluminum construction, 1040 x 6610 x 60 cm, Courtesy Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin/Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna/Galerie Susanna Kulli, Zurich/Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg/Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich/Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, Salzburg
Photo: Sebastian Wulf
GERWALD ROCKENSCHAUB
multidial
16 April - 4 September, 2011
One of the outstanding architectural features of the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg is its large central hall, which has a floor area of 1,600 m2 and a height of 16 metres. From time to time, this impressive space is made available to selected artists to develop large-scale, site-specific installations: one such project was carried out by Olafur Eliasson in 2004, another by Douglas Gordon in 2007 and, most recently, James Turrell incorporated the central hall in his extensive exhibition The Wolfsburg Project. Following the major presentation of work by Alberto Giacometti in winter 2010/2011, the space will next be used by the artist Gerwald Rockenschaub to make what he calls a “precise intervention”. At the last documenta, held in Kassel in 2007, Rockenschaub created a striking display of brightly coloured installations in various locations throughout the mega-exhibition. In 2008 he surprised visitors to the Temporäre Kunsthalle in Berlin with his simple yet highly effective design for the facade of the exhibition space on the city’s Schlossplatz. In the monumental interior space of the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Rockenschaub plans to erect a 70m-long and 11m-high angled wall, the front of which will be completely covered with hundreds of different pictographic motifs. These will draw the viewer into a sublime experience of “sex for the eyes” that reveals much about the flood of advertising images and other visual stimuli we are confronted with in our daily lives. Gerwald Rockenschaub was born in 1952 in the Austrian city of Linz and currently lives in Berlin.
multidial
16 April - 4 September, 2011
One of the outstanding architectural features of the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg is its large central hall, which has a floor area of 1,600 m2 and a height of 16 metres. From time to time, this impressive space is made available to selected artists to develop large-scale, site-specific installations: one such project was carried out by Olafur Eliasson in 2004, another by Douglas Gordon in 2007 and, most recently, James Turrell incorporated the central hall in his extensive exhibition The Wolfsburg Project. Following the major presentation of work by Alberto Giacometti in winter 2010/2011, the space will next be used by the artist Gerwald Rockenschaub to make what he calls a “precise intervention”. At the last documenta, held in Kassel in 2007, Rockenschaub created a striking display of brightly coloured installations in various locations throughout the mega-exhibition. In 2008 he surprised visitors to the Temporäre Kunsthalle in Berlin with his simple yet highly effective design for the facade of the exhibition space on the city’s Schlossplatz. In the monumental interior space of the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Rockenschaub plans to erect a 70m-long and 11m-high angled wall, the front of which will be completely covered with hundreds of different pictographic motifs. These will draw the viewer into a sublime experience of “sex for the eyes” that reveals much about the flood of advertising images and other visual stimuli we are confronted with in our daily lives. Gerwald Rockenschaub was born in 1952 in the Austrian city of Linz and currently lives in Berlin.