Solo exhibition at Kunstraum Bernsteiner, Vienna, AT.
opening: 29 November 2011 with Andreas Spiegl
exhibition: 30 November 2011 to 24 Januar 2012

making-of MASK at Kunstraum Bernsteiner, Vienna, AT, August 2011

2011

video, 4 min 59 sec, loop, colour, original sound, projection ca. 4 x 3 m
30 age-resistant museum board made from 100% cotton fibre, museum quality, ink, ca. 410 x 615 cm
pedestal: ply wood, ink, with mask made from Foreman, neon yellow, 20 x 157 x 138 cm
pedestal: ply wood, ink, with mask made from Trevira, greenboxgreen, 130 x 76,5 x 76,5 cm
pedestal: ply wood, ink, with mask made from Bluebox-Stretch-Flex, 163 x 190 x 40 cm
pedestal: ply wood, ink, with mask made from textile, retro reflective, silver, 200 x 69 x 69 cm
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Installation view Kunstraum Bernsteiner, Vienna, AT, 2011 / 2012, Photo: Lisa Rastl

Statement MASK

In August 2011 I set up my studio in the Kunstraum Bernsteiner where I created the intermedia installation MASK, which then was exhibited there 2011 / 2012. With black and white ink I painted onto pedestal objects. This process was videotaped with an action cam which was fastened to my arm, and a second camera which was positioned on a tripod. 30 age-resistant mount boards were lined on the floor, to fix the traces of working. In the presentation form the boards are positioned on the wall and the whole installation is staged with spotlights. In addition to this, a video loop is projected in the exhibition space. It is not a documentation of the working process, but a clip that forms one element alongside others. The bluebox-blue, greenbox-green, neon yellow and silver of the masks, which veil the pedestals in the show, are removed in the video by keying or via a colour matte, and so the pedestals, and myself as the acting artist in the close up, partially disappear.

Video still

Installation view Kunstraum Bernsteiner, Vienna, 2011 / 2012, Photo: Lisa Rastl