INSTALLATION

Architectural Beings (with I AM video projection)

René Fadinger and Elisabeth Winkler

Curated by Lina Sunish Vincent

Time: 11:00 – 20:00

Venue: Fundacao Oriente


Imagine empty space contained within an architectural structure. Imagine that this space is intelligent, and has memory. In an effort to emancipate itself from the structure it is confined within, it changes its form constantly. Through metamorphosis, from gaseous to solid state, and from solid to gaseous (known as sublimation), the structures before the viewer were this intelligent space, caught in a moment of crystallizing into solid form. The space was seeking a new abstract form to inhabit, one that allowed it to explore higher dimensions of existence. Towards this exploration, it continued to change its state of matter and density until it got bored of the physical realm and became a formless entity in infinite space.

This installation could also be understood as a metaphor for human life—raising questions about our own journeys of emancipation and our inevitable return to nothingness.

Elisabeth Winkler

Elisabeth studied art history at the University of Vienna and specialized in the beginning of abstract art. She has done research fellowships in Paris, Washington and New York. For her postgraduate degree, she studied museology at the University for Applied Arts Vienna. She worked for several Galleries, such as Gallery Carinthia, Klagenfurt and Heike Curtze, Vienna and as a researcher at the Museum of Applied Arts Vienna, establishing the internet-application and the Design Showcases for the MAK Design-Info-Pool. Since 2012, she has been working as an independent art historian and curator. For about ten years she has also been working with René Fadinger on space-conceptions and site-specific installations.

René Fadinger

Born 1974 in Vienna, Austria; grown up in Austria and Slovakia; lives and works in Carinthia, Austria and for several months in India. He studied at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Institute of Fine Arts, drawing and fine art print. Since 2012 he is teaching at the Independent Academy of Fine Arts Carinthia. René Fadinger’s approach is experimental and many-layered. He combines a variety of different techniques, builds three-dimensional objects, which could also be interpreted as architectural models; he paints, draws, makes experimental-videos, takes photographs and is recently working on augmented reality projects as well.

http://www.renefadinger.com/home-1.html

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