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
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