Bertold Stallmach
26 Aug - 16 Oct 2010
© Bertold Stallmach
von vor und nach der Unendlichkeit, 2010
Acrylic on paper
35 x 35 cm / 13.8 x 13.8 in
von vor und nach der Unendlichkeit, 2010
Acrylic on paper
35 x 35 cm / 13.8 x 13.8 in
BERTOLD STALLMACH
"Warten auf den 9 Uhr-Witz"
August 26 – October 16, 2010
Opening: Wednesday, August 25, 5pm – 8pm
Joint opening night Zürich Aussersihl: Party at the Kanzleihalle on Helvetiaplatz starts at 8pm
Concert: CHANTetSON, Saturday, September 4, starting at 8pm
Bertold Stallmach, who was born in Quthing, Lesotho, in 1984, lives and works in Zurich. “Warten auf den 9 Uhr-Witz” [“Waiting for the 9 o’clock joke”] is his first exhibition at Galerie Susanna Kulli. In conjunction with the exhibition, a concert by CHANTetSON (piano and vocals) will be held at the gallery on Saturday, September 4. We’d love to see you there.
“In the exhibition ‘Warten auf den 9 Uhr-Witz,’ I would like to present three bodies of work. Animated film (computer technology: Flash, Cinema 4d, Aftereffects); installation (potter’s clay, newspaper, plexiglass, etc.); and painting (acrylic on paper). The animated film presents the shared point of departure for the other two works.
The ten-minute film was created in 2009. An anthill is compared to a human organism. On the one hand, ant researchers try to identify the ant that coordinates the actions of the colony; on the other hand, meanwhile, the question is examined where in a human body decisions are made.
Based in their aesthetic on the computer-generated images of the animated film, the small paintings mounted on the walls suggest film stills from additional imaginary filmic works. These are snapshots capturing scenes that play out on the symbolic level between human and human as well as between animal and human.
The installation accompanying the film looks like a large man resting on the floor. Plexiglass boxes connected by tubes represent the most massive among his organs. A crawling ant population lives in the plexiglass boxes, functioning as the man’s circulatory system. By operating a system of lamps, the visitor to the exhibition can activate organs, rendering them, as though in a spiritual ritual, the man’s center of decision-making. The sculpture’s head is made of old newspapers. It is the organ of communication; once every hour, his tongue flutters out of his mouth, and he tells a joke, like a cuckoo clock. The way body and head are represented in the installation aims to create a collision between a spiritual and a materialistic worldview."
Bertold Stallmach, June 2010
"Warten auf den 9 Uhr-Witz"
August 26 – October 16, 2010
Opening: Wednesday, August 25, 5pm – 8pm
Joint opening night Zürich Aussersihl: Party at the Kanzleihalle on Helvetiaplatz starts at 8pm
Concert: CHANTetSON, Saturday, September 4, starting at 8pm
Bertold Stallmach, who was born in Quthing, Lesotho, in 1984, lives and works in Zurich. “Warten auf den 9 Uhr-Witz” [“Waiting for the 9 o’clock joke”] is his first exhibition at Galerie Susanna Kulli. In conjunction with the exhibition, a concert by CHANTetSON (piano and vocals) will be held at the gallery on Saturday, September 4. We’d love to see you there.
“In the exhibition ‘Warten auf den 9 Uhr-Witz,’ I would like to present three bodies of work. Animated film (computer technology: Flash, Cinema 4d, Aftereffects); installation (potter’s clay, newspaper, plexiglass, etc.); and painting (acrylic on paper). The animated film presents the shared point of departure for the other two works.
The ten-minute film was created in 2009. An anthill is compared to a human organism. On the one hand, ant researchers try to identify the ant that coordinates the actions of the colony; on the other hand, meanwhile, the question is examined where in a human body decisions are made.
Based in their aesthetic on the computer-generated images of the animated film, the small paintings mounted on the walls suggest film stills from additional imaginary filmic works. These are snapshots capturing scenes that play out on the symbolic level between human and human as well as between animal and human.
The installation accompanying the film looks like a large man resting on the floor. Plexiglass boxes connected by tubes represent the most massive among his organs. A crawling ant population lives in the plexiglass boxes, functioning as the man’s circulatory system. By operating a system of lamps, the visitor to the exhibition can activate organs, rendering them, as though in a spiritual ritual, the man’s center of decision-making. The sculpture’s head is made of old newspapers. It is the organ of communication; once every hour, his tongue flutters out of his mouth, and he tells a joke, like a cuckoo clock. The way body and head are represented in the installation aims to create a collision between a spiritual and a materialistic worldview."
Bertold Stallmach, June 2010