Through the deep black void is advertised as a rave party. The yellow neon and M-Tv musical illusions are turned into the mesmerizing entry ticket for the exhibition. Self- promotion, the event as a site for contemplation, the status of the creative individual (the artist), a self-claimed freedom, are at stake. The exhibition serves as a refuge. It is filled with quests, adventuring experiences, powerful gears, and treasures.
In the 90s, the time in which Andreas moved to Vienna, the Western world was filled with new beats, parties and immersive experiences. We grew up with dreams of international critical communities, multiple modernisms, extraterrestrial explorations, and Blade Runner-like movies. This recent past got stained when swallowed by global capitalism. A bright future made space for the current health crisis, climate change, border politics, and a new technological rush to save the planet. This tension in the recent past is where Andreas sites his explorations in Through the deep black void.
Andreas Werner's drawings are built up through elements of classical but also fictional filmic architecture, space vehicles and furniture. They hold the middle between personages and architectural sites. You can inhabit them as if they were interiors or reflect on them as if they were a 19th-century scenery. Andreas understands every landscape as culturally constructed. He confronts the outpours of complex futuristic societies with historical ones. His drawings ask you to dig into the future and project onto the past. To contemplate and to inhabit, to project and introspect.
The sharp edges from popular 90s movies become the skill to depict space craft's merging with classical temples. The new series paintings Space Routes are excavated in paint as if they were an archeological site while at the same time resembling vectoring tools for video graphics. Constructivism, urbanism, architecture, ideology, and religion take in turns a go at the dance floor rehearsing their moves in futuristic settings or far-gone mythologies. Through the deep black void dances through the difficulties of our time.
An exhibition in three scenes in the garage of Krinzinger Schottenfeld.
Andreas Werner was born 1984 in Merseburg an der Saale, DL, lives and works in Vienna and Unterolberndorf, Lower Austria.From 2004 to 2007 he studied graphics and free graphics at the University of Applied Arts Vienna with Sigbert Schenk and from 2007 to 2012 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna graphics and printmaking techniques with Gunter Damisch; from which he also made his diploma with distinction in 2012. In 2016 he was awarded the Recognition Prize for Fine Arts - Culture Prize of the State of Lower Austria and the MUSA Prize for Young Art of the City of Vienna. The state scholarship of Saxony-Anhalt was awarded to him in 2017. His works are represented in numerous collections, including those of the City of Vienna, the Province of Lower Austria, the Republic of Austria (Belvedere 21), the Universalmuseum Joanneum / Neue Galerie Graz and the Kupferstichkabinett of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Courtesy Galerie Krinzinger. Text: Pieternel Vermoortel (artistic director Netwerk Aalst, Belgium.)
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