TOBIAS ABEL

Dystotal, Pori Art Museum, Pori 2014


Detail


Dystotal, Pori Art Museum, Pori 2014


Detail



Dystotal, Pori Art Museum, Pori 2014

Tobias Abel, Justin Andrews, Lars Breuer, Ralf Brög, Julia Bünnagel, Frauke Dannert, Sebastian Freytag, Terry Haggerty, Julio Herrera, Ukri Merikanto, Guido Münch, Jörg Nittenwilm, Sebastian Riemer, Christian Robert-Tissot, Pietro Sanguineti, Jan Scharrelmann, Phillip Schulze, Michal Škoda, John Tremblay, Mirko Tschauner

The exhibition Dystotal positions itself in the dialectic relation of utopian visions and dystopian scenarios. Starting from artists like Malevich, Mondrian and the Bauhaus the entitled radicalness of the modernistic language will be analysed on the one hand side. And on the other hand side it will be confronted with its own downside and failure.

Text: Pori Art Museum


List of Works

Untitled, 2009–10 (black, 4 parts), acrylic on aluminum, 300 x 300 cm, Swarovski Collection

Untitled,
2012 (white), oil crayon on vellum, 50 x 65 cm, framed 60 x 75 cm, edition: 5 (+ 1 a.p.), no.: 1/5, collection of Johann Widauer