Trenka - art and culture

art and culture

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By slightly altering Lawrence Weiner’s statement “Many coloured things put next to each other make an alignment of coloured things.”, one could describe Michael Kienzer’s work: “Many layers put on top of each other make an alignment of layers, a sculpture.” Kienzer mainly focuses on the numerous possibilities and the leeway during the formation and tries this out by using various materials for his art, such as glass, duct tape and even carpets. Kienzer is “a silent master in ignoring instructions of use for basic commodities or even deliberately counteracting against them. With such manners he irritates, creates the sensation of irony or sometimes even insight.”

Michael Kienzer „Stop and go“ and „Ja-Wohl

Kienzer produces his glass-sculptures, such as “stop and go” or “Ja-Wohl” (= “right you are”), by applying different glass-layers. Doing so, he increases the volume of the prospective sculpture, until it has reached a certain density. Also words and letters are captured by the process of densifying and can be seen on the final sculpture. Language so turns into sculpture, densified poetry. The question of the relation between language and sculpture, after the metamorphosis from linguistic elements to art, forms the thread through Kienzer’s artistic inquest. This also includes the question of the social part art plays and the social discourses art is based on.

Both pieces of art, “stop and go” and “Ja-Wohl”, live on the deviation but still seem to be a couple – it is just a gap, a small range of possibilities that stays open.

Michael Kienzer “Offen- Verschlossen”

“Offen-Verschlossen” (= “open-closed”) is a sort of toilet situation, but Kienzer installed his work on a balcony in the Hohenlohe gallery as “Binär” (= “binary”). The balcony is part of the private, but still reaches out into the public. Although one is displayed to the public, the sheltered area of the own living space surrounds the balcony. Now the setup is placed in the office of the company Trenka, installed on the open, or closed door, of the chief executive Michaela Kamler. The new context of the installation, the office or staff situation, takes up the relation between the boss and staff and also reflects the social interaction during office hours.

Doris Wallnöfer, Galerie Hohenlohe
www.galeriehohenlohe.at

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