Toni Schmale
14 Sep - 05 Nov 2017
Toni Schmale, feuerbock, 2015
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Christine König
Photo: Toni Schmale
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Christine König
Photo: Toni Schmale
Toni Schmale, wildkatze, 2016
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Christine König
Photo: Peer Sievers
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Christine König
Photo: Peer Sievers
Toni Schmale, hl. Antonia, 2015
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Christine König
Photo: Uwe Boek
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Christine König
Photo: Uwe Boek
TONI SCHMALE
14 September – 5 November 2017
In the works that she realises in mediums such as installation, performance, sculpture, animation, video and drawing Toni Schmale examines and questions the gender constructions that exist in social power relations. References to subjects such as sexuality and gender, fetishism, sport and physical exertion open up in both the formal designs and also in regard to the assignment of titles.
A certain permeability between object and installation is noticeable in Toni Schmale’s sculptural work. In addition the sculptures often awaken the impression of usability and thus underline their performative potential that appears to be inherent in them. This ascription is permissible not least because of their formal proximity to physical fitness devices as in her series fuhrpark (2015) in which the objects are made of hot-dip galvanised steel with an electrostatic powder coating as well as concrete and moulded rubber.
Toni Schmale, born in 1980 in Hamburg, lives and works in Vienna.
14 September – 5 November 2017
In the works that she realises in mediums such as installation, performance, sculpture, animation, video and drawing Toni Schmale examines and questions the gender constructions that exist in social power relations. References to subjects such as sexuality and gender, fetishism, sport and physical exertion open up in both the formal designs and also in regard to the assignment of titles.
A certain permeability between object and installation is noticeable in Toni Schmale’s sculptural work. In addition the sculptures often awaken the impression of usability and thus underline their performative potential that appears to be inherent in them. This ascription is permissible not least because of their formal proximity to physical fitness devices as in her series fuhrpark (2015) in which the objects are made of hot-dip galvanised steel with an electrostatic powder coating as well as concrete and moulded rubber.
Toni Schmale, born in 1980 in Hamburg, lives and works in Vienna.