“Northeast Corner at 2” Exhibition
Essex Flowers
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The title ‘Northeast Corner at 2’ refers to two distinct practices. Rainer Spangl’s paintings pictorially render focus on the northeast corner of the Art History Museum of Vienna’s painting gallery number seven. He writes:
My approach tries to set in motion a reflexive confrontation of the exhibition space in the medium of painting. In my practice the painted picture is in a dialectical relationship with the institution. In this way, it is an investigation of the view within the institutional space that is the decisive aspect of the observation at once an inclusion and an exclusion of information. Consciously engaging different perspectives, I explore the architectural elements that characterize the museum gallery. The selection of the field of view, the framing of the image, is in the regime (control) of the gaze according to the location of new coordinates.
Ezara Spangl’s palette is taken from landscape studies repeatedly made in or around two o’clock in the afternoon. Outdoor observational drawings and palette studies are used in the studio with either a single large brush or a small brush, for details. Flatness and the grid is involved as a system of organization. Recurring relationships of warm and cool parts; foreground and depth; balance and chance all come together unscripted.
Artist Lecture Series Vienna is a project by Rainer and Ezara Spangl. In Northeast Corner at 2, four lectures from the archive of the Artist Lecture Series Vienna are being screened. The German text of these lectures has been translated into English and is available in the Essex Flowers gallery for reading, alongside viewing the lecture. The lectures being presented are from: Judith Eisler, Marina Faust,
Siggi Hofer, Stefan Sandner.
[Image: Rainer Spangl, Untitled(frame), Oil on canvas, 12.9 x 9.4 in, 2014 and Ezara Spangl, 15h, 20.5 x 16.5 in, 2014]
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Schedule
from May 25, 2014 to June 22, 2014
Reception For The Artist on 2014-05-25 from 17:00 to 20:00