Schirn Kunsthalle

Peter Kogler

01 Jul - 12 Sep 2010

© Peter Kogler, Untitled, 2008
installation view MuMoK, Wien 2008
PETER KOGLER
Projection
1 July - 12 September 2010

The Austrian multimedia artist Peter Kogler is regarded as a pioneer of computer-generated art. Using an impressive 360-degree multi-projection from 12 projectors, the artist, who has taken part twice in documenta, creates within the SCHIRN a space of illusion that completely envelops the observer. Lines of a uniform grid lose their fixed coordinates and stretch into a play of amorphous figures. All the projected elements vibrate in a state of continuous structural transformation: sound elements by sonic artist Franz Pomassl contribute to the vibration. In Kogler’s installation, sound is produced by home-made devices and instruments from measurement technology and other research fields, developing into a sculptural experience. As observers we stand in the midst of a superstructure, which dissolves the previous form of the space around us through systematic impulses: the ground disappears from under our feet.

Project manager: Heide Häusler, Shirn
 

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