Nouchka & Alexander Wolf
06 Oct - 05 Nov 2011
NOUCHKA & ALEXANDER WOLF
N.A.Wolfs Urwatschn (Laboratorium Sanguinis Enorme)
6 October - 5 November, 2011
When Wilhelm Fließ, in his lectures 'On Life and on Death,' recognizes the counter-sexual inside us, 'that ordinarily slumbers in our consciousness,' as the medium of those 'dream fantasies' that the artist, in whose soul man and woman embrace, marries with light in a work of art, then he has touched on telesmatic power and its substrate, albeit without knowing its nature. And it is right also that art emanated from the transfiguring source.
Alfred Schuler
In this exhibition, the young Berlin artist couple walks in the footsteps of the Munich 'Cosmic' Alfred Schuler, who, together with Karl Wolfskehl and Ludwig Klages, was a member for a while of the George Circle (1865–1923). Schuler's cult of the 'Blutleuchte' ('Blood beacon,' a term in which blood ties and illumination form part of the esoteric vocabulary), in the shape of a lab-like, literal realization in the spirit of the gnostic, neopaganist and self-proclaimed seer, stands at the heart of the exhibition. Darwin's evolution Schuler counters with cosmological archetypes such as the telesmatic essence which man and woman once again would have to partake in through a 'marriage in ether.'
Nouchka (born 1982) and Alexander Wolf (born 1975) hail from Austria and Bavaria respectively and studied art at UDK in Berlin. Their conceptual art, consisting of videos, sculptures and collages, circles around their personal union that stands in 'telesmatic' connection to the Danube Monarchy and later German-Austrian traditions (the Nazi regime), but also formulates its own connection as a blood myth. Bloodsuckers, like Lenin in the sealed train carriage, or Dracula in the ship's hold, once were transported from east to west. Now, Nouchka and Alexander make their blood glow at Kunstraum Innsbruck. By translating their numerous ideas into one huge life project, the Wolfs have built up a poetic realm over the years in which past and present form an intricate band, sometimes a noose even that might tighten on them. The melancholy pervading their work, which is also a suffering from history, is not without a certain wit, irony and grotesqueness. They short-circuit Schuler's Blutleuchte and make it glow with the help of the voltaic pile in a lab-like arrangement.
On 5 October, one hour before the opening, Veit Loers will lead a private tour through the exhibitions of Petrit Halilaj and Nouchka & Alexander Wolf. The artist couple will be present.
N.A.Wolfs Urwatschn (Laboratorium Sanguinis Enorme)
6 October - 5 November, 2011
When Wilhelm Fließ, in his lectures 'On Life and on Death,' recognizes the counter-sexual inside us, 'that ordinarily slumbers in our consciousness,' as the medium of those 'dream fantasies' that the artist, in whose soul man and woman embrace, marries with light in a work of art, then he has touched on telesmatic power and its substrate, albeit without knowing its nature. And it is right also that art emanated from the transfiguring source.
Alfred Schuler
In this exhibition, the young Berlin artist couple walks in the footsteps of the Munich 'Cosmic' Alfred Schuler, who, together with Karl Wolfskehl and Ludwig Klages, was a member for a while of the George Circle (1865–1923). Schuler's cult of the 'Blutleuchte' ('Blood beacon,' a term in which blood ties and illumination form part of the esoteric vocabulary), in the shape of a lab-like, literal realization in the spirit of the gnostic, neopaganist and self-proclaimed seer, stands at the heart of the exhibition. Darwin's evolution Schuler counters with cosmological archetypes such as the telesmatic essence which man and woman once again would have to partake in through a 'marriage in ether.'
Nouchka (born 1982) and Alexander Wolf (born 1975) hail from Austria and Bavaria respectively and studied art at UDK in Berlin. Their conceptual art, consisting of videos, sculptures and collages, circles around their personal union that stands in 'telesmatic' connection to the Danube Monarchy and later German-Austrian traditions (the Nazi regime), but also formulates its own connection as a blood myth. Bloodsuckers, like Lenin in the sealed train carriage, or Dracula in the ship's hold, once were transported from east to west. Now, Nouchka and Alexander make their blood glow at Kunstraum Innsbruck. By translating their numerous ideas into one huge life project, the Wolfs have built up a poetic realm over the years in which past and present form an intricate band, sometimes a noose even that might tighten on them. The melancholy pervading their work, which is also a suffering from history, is not without a certain wit, irony and grotesqueness. They short-circuit Schuler's Blutleuchte and make it glow with the help of the voltaic pile in a lab-like arrangement.
On 5 October, one hour before the opening, Veit Loers will lead a private tour through the exhibitions of Petrit Halilaj and Nouchka & Alexander Wolf. The artist couple will be present.