Christoph Meier
25 Feb - 15 May 2011
© Christoph Meier
ohne Titel (Filmsetperformancebühnefilm), 2009
Performance, Installation, 35mm-Film, Courtesy Christoph Meier
ohne Titel (Filmsetperformancebühnefilm), 2009
Performance, Installation, 35mm-Film, Courtesy Christoph Meier
CHRISTOPH MEIER
February 25 – May 15, 2011
Christoph Meier's art focuses on the performative and narrative potentials of his media. The 35mm film Filmsetperformancebühnefilm (Filmsetperformancestagefilm , 2009), for instance, shows a crew, unaided by any script, filming itself during work on a film production. In the work, which was realized during Meier's final examination at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, both the actors and the examination committee become self-observing elements in the filmic action. In his installations and sculptural arrangements, Meier uses photography equipment, presentation furniture, byproducts of creative processes discarded by fellow artists, and everyday objects, rearranging these elements, divorced from their original contexts, in open compositions. The installation Setting #17 (2010) consists of an arrangement of five different projectors; their individual images combine to create a complete picture whose painterly quality derives from the different color temperatures of the projectors. The situations Meier fashions and stages are defined, on the one hand, by the self-referential aspect of a geometric and abstract formal vocabulary; on the other hand, the objects he uses make them appear to be representations of a plot. On several occasions, Meier opened the performative work with his objects to viewers, allowing them to participate in the creative process and his artistic method.
Christoph Meier, b. Vienna (AT) 1980, lives and works in Vienna (AT).
February 25 – May 15, 2011
Christoph Meier's art focuses on the performative and narrative potentials of his media. The 35mm film Filmsetperformancebühnefilm (Filmsetperformancestagefilm , 2009), for instance, shows a crew, unaided by any script, filming itself during work on a film production. In the work, which was realized during Meier's final examination at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, both the actors and the examination committee become self-observing elements in the filmic action. In his installations and sculptural arrangements, Meier uses photography equipment, presentation furniture, byproducts of creative processes discarded by fellow artists, and everyday objects, rearranging these elements, divorced from their original contexts, in open compositions. The installation Setting #17 (2010) consists of an arrangement of five different projectors; their individual images combine to create a complete picture whose painterly quality derives from the different color temperatures of the projectors. The situations Meier fashions and stages are defined, on the one hand, by the self-referential aspect of a geometric and abstract formal vocabulary; on the other hand, the objects he uses make them appear to be representations of a plot. On several occasions, Meier opened the performative work with his objects to viewers, allowing them to participate in the creative process and his artistic method.
Christoph Meier, b. Vienna (AT) 1980, lives and works in Vienna (AT).