Wie alles so einfach wird ...
Künstler/in
Andreas Heller
(geb. 1978 in Graz, Steiermark)
Date2006
ClassificationsDruck
MediumDigitale Fotomontage, Print auf Fotopapier
Dimensions445 × 595 mm; Rahmen: 47,3 × 62,5 × 3,5 cm
Credit LineArtothek des Bundes
Object number27044
DescriptionThe man on the rock, a passionate discoverer on a search for a treasure, an enthusiast hopelessly trying to catch the universe by his thread of sense and meaning, which apparently (humorously) disrespects the (too restricted) law of gravity: such is Andreas Heller´s hero of "Wie alles so einfach wird…", 2006 standing dangerously on the edge of the cliff, struggling tirelessly with a precarious nature, overwhelming in its sublime, between attraction and repulsion, seduction and reverence. Here, there is a true doppelganger of an artist himself, drawn in ambiguity of his own identity and the absurdities of his own situation; here, there is a discreet cry for freedom and autonomy: a readiness for taking a risk and generating a revolt… Heller´s subtle works (photographs, drawings, installations) bear signs of a certain enigmatic pastness, spiced by an allure of nostalgia, of traces left and slowly travelling into an obscure land of oblivion, of shadows as evidences of short-lived truths, never encountered nor experienced, of romanticised landscapes, longed for and forgotten. This is not a collection of utopias though: here memory constitutes a credible frame of reference which legitimates the past (its time and space) and brings it back as an ever-present component of now and here: an anemic contemporary reality in representational crisis and agony.(Katalogtext von Adam Budak zur Ausstellung "waking doubting rolling shining and musing improvisation of a faun, or on precarious life")
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