Galerie Hubert Winter

WALKING RHETORICS
6. June – 5. July 2003
Mitten im Weg lag ein Stein
Lag ein Stein mitten im Weg
Nie werde dieses Ereignis
Im Leben meiner ach so entzündeten Netzhaut
vergessen
Darcy Ribeiro, Migo. Dt. v. C.Meyer-Clason. Zürich, bei Ammann, 1988.

Die Ausstellung Walking Rhetorics versammelt drei KünstlerInnen, die das Zu Fuß gehen als Basis ihrer künstlerischen Position verstehen. Gehen, um sich eine individuelle Wahrnehmung zu ermöglichen; als Performace , um sich abzureagieren; zur inneren Reinigung, zur Konzentration, um zu flanieren, um zu erforschen ...
Diese Ausgangspunkte lassen völlig unterschiedliche Positionen aus dem Akt des eigentlichen Vorübergehens entstehen; Gehen nicht nur als geografische Aneignung, sondern auch als soziale, anarchistische, einsame Erfahrung, die Stadträume wie Wildnis und vor allem das Dazwischen berücksichtigt.
Der Titel verweist auf "Gehen in der Stadt", einen Text über die Möglichkeiten des Fußgängers in der Stadt von Michel de Certeau. De Certeau, ein Anthropologe und Historiker, widmet einen großen Teil seines Buches "Die Kunst des Handelns" (1980) den Aktivitäten der Fußgänger und Passanten, die durch ihre Bewegung eine eigene Form des Ausdrucks finden. Er spricht von einer dreifachen Funktion der Äußerung: 1. Der Prozess der Aneignung des topographischen Systems, 2. die räumliche Realisierung des Ortes und 3. Die Beziehung zwischen unterschiedlichen Positionen – Gehen als Raum der Äußerung.


Catherine Bagnall
"In my work I am exploring the relationship between my being and the landscape and ist representation. I am interested in the impossibility of ever truley “being – in- nature“ and ways of trying to transcent that sense.
The relationship between the New Zealand wilderness landscape, clothing and my body is experienced through te process of being in nature, dressed up, literally tramping through it. Clothing/fashion is a central part of my project as it allows me to use different performative personae. Clothing is a mediating tool in the experience of being in the wilderness and plays a crucial role in the repesentation of myself in the landscape.
The work is very much about excess. The photos and objects that are the outcome from these walks, that I exhibit, are in excess of the actual process of walking in the bush all dressed up. "
Die ausgestellten Arbeiten entstanden während eines Studioaufenthalt in Krems, NÖ, in Kooperation mit Julian Bishop.


Michael Höpfner
walking/maps/memory
walking
travelling into landscapes which reflect the temporal: desert, mountains, glaciers, rocks, sand. Walking there for weeks or months, trying to find a new perception of time and space.
maps
abstract models reflecting abstract patterns of the world. To "use" maps means to transform them into personal maps, new plans of organisation. New questions arrive: how far is it, where can I put my tent, etc.
memory
the use of black and white photography allows an indiviual view of the landscape, a personal memory. I do not want to document a walk, the pictures just stand for certain experiences. The photographic options are limited by the weather and the features of the land, this also means to accept those realities.


Danica Phelps
"I will be making a walking project in Vienna called Walking 9-5. I will start each day in the center of the city, and walk for 8 hours in as straight a line as possible from the center out. I will do this for 15 days, each day heading in a different direction. I have made this project in NYC and Amsterdam. In NYC, I only reached each edge of the city in 8 hours. In Amsterdam, I was in the countryside in 2 hours,through another city in 5 hours, and to the ocean in 8 hours. Another day, I walked from Amsterdam to Utrecht in 8 hours. It changes the conception of the size of the city when you know how far you can walk in 8 hours. This project is an attempt to translate time directly into space. In the US, many people work 8 hours a day, either in a factory or at a desk in front of a computer. I wanted to see how far one could propell oneself in the most ancient, unaided way, walking, in that same amount of time. The drawing will also reflect how much money I spend during this project."



BIOGRAPHIES

Catherine Bagnall
born 1965 Wellington, New Zealand.
Recent group exhibitions:
2002 Nine Dragon Heads International Art Symposium, South Korea 2002 Sleeping Lighty, Dowse Public Art Gallery, Wellington New Zealand 2001 Tent, The Waiting room, Wellington, New Zealand 2001 Botanica, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand and Gus Fische, Auckland, New Zealand.
Recent solo exhibition:
2000 Beauty, Michael Hirschfeld public gallery, Wellington, New Zealand 1999 Drunken Dreams, Penthouse and Pavement gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
exhibited solo 1985-1996 in Auckland, Wellington, New Zealand.


Michael Höpfner
born 1972 Krems/Donau, Austria.
Journeys through India, Ladhak, Nepal, Tibet, China, Southkorea, Scotland, Iceland, Spain, Pyrenees, Alps.
Group exhibitions:
2003 Landschaft, nac, Wien continue, Projektraum Beckmanngasse 52, Wien 2002 Nine Dragon Heads International Art Symposium, Seoul, South Korea 2002 Workshop table ronde, Dakar, Senegal 2002 Monumental, Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck 2002 current settings, Kunstverein Hallein 2001 Rolling Stones Adorned with Starlight, Galerie Hubert Winter, Wien 2001 Sieben, Volpinum - Sammlung Fuchs Wien 2000 Museum in Progress, Transact 2000 Fernlust - Heimatweh, Galerie Hubert Winter, Wien 1999 Institut für Gegenwartskunst, Akademie der bildenden Künste, Wien 1999 Metronome Magazin, Clementine Deliss, article with Hamish Fulton 1998 Pure Photography, Street Level Gallery Glasgow.
Solo exhibitions:
2002 alternative trail, Galerie Hubert Winter, Wien 2001 Unfinished Valley, Galerie Stadtpark, Krems.


Danica Phelps
born 1971, New York, USA.
Selected group exhibitions:
2002 Cabinet, Gretels File, Zürich 2002 Bootleg Identity, Caren Golden, New York 2002 Living inside the Grid, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York 2001 Domestic Culture, ICA at MECA Portland, ME 2001 Brooklyn!, ICA at Palm Beach, Palm Beach, FL 2001 Inside the City, gallery 400, UIC Chicago, IL 2001 Greetings from Jesevo, Jesevo Detention Center Zagreb, Croatia 2000 Vida Politica, Sala Montcada "la Caixa" Barcelona 1999 100 Drawings PS1, New York, NY.
Selected solo exhibitions:
2002 Walking 9-5, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam 2002 Learning as I Go, Galerie Schütte, Essen. 2002 Artist, Collector, Curator, Spy, LFL Gallery, New York, NY 2002 Buffalo, Buffalo Arts Studio, NY. 2001 Trade Two, LFL Gallery, New York 2000 2nd Generation, Herter Gallery, Umass Amherst, Mass. 2000 Bill Trip, Project Room, Roberts&Tilton, Los Angeles, CA. Walking from LA to San Francisco, Michael Martin Gallery, San Francisco, CA. 1998 Funny Money, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York.