Volker Lang »Montello« Installation and Circus poster / Silkscreens with guests Hassân al Mohtasib,Veronika Werthmann, Barbara Zenner Opening on Friday, 31. October 2014 from 7 p.m. Duration until 15.02.2015 (closed 15.12.14 to 05.01.15)
In his second solo show at Osterwalders Art Office Volker Lang is mounting a piece of work consisting of black and white photographs of alpine land scapes in different formats built into a wall construction together with targeted body fragments partly as a relief as well as full plastic. Lang is addressing the connection or contrast of centered physical momentary existence and appearance towards the open endless complexity of peripheral space, continuum. The second part of the show is dealing with Lang’s project 8 1/2 Circus space. Silkscreen prints will be shown also by the invited guest artists Hassân al Mohtasib, Veronika Werthmann and Barbara Zenner as well as a model piece by Lang. Volker Lang is realising in 2015 a memorial for deserters and other victims of the NS-justice at Dammtor (international train station) in Hamburg. The work consists of a transparent building in the form of an equilateral triangle that is being placed between a war memorial by Richard Kuöhl from the NS-time and the memorial against war by Alfred Hrdlicka from 1985/86. Two of the walls will be built of bronze font grids with text excerpts from the quotation-collage „Deutschland 1944“ by Helmut Heißenbüttel. A third pointed convolved beton wall is closing off the space towards the East. The sound of the text-collage will be fully transmitted within the walkable space. The quotations give account of the victims perspective as well as that of the perpetrator. An active visualization by the spectator of the dictatorship and war of extermination through the reading and listening is taking place. The conveyed information was in many cases the motif for desertion. Thus a work will be created that is looking for the contrast in using the subtle expression of language rather than the monumental statement	The artist Volker Lang, who lives and works in Hamburg, is staging model like spaces of artificial houses that are not meant to be lived in, theatre stages and circus tents halves as well as tableaus with figurativ sculptures and reliefs. He realised and conceptionalised works from art sections such as literature and music to create his installation spaces often with the participation of people, be it through the recording of their voices or tunes. Of the mostly ephemeral appearances there are some permanent placings in public spaces. Volker Lang (born 1964 in Augsburg) studied after his training as a church painter (1985-88) until 1994 at the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg (HBK). He received many awards und scholarships like a work scholarship of the Kunstfonds Bonn e.V., or for Venice, Centro tedesco di studi Veneziani as well as the Karl-Schmidt-Rottluff-Stipendium. Lang realised several projects in public spaces amongst others. Shenjas Raum (2004) junge Kunst Wolfsburg, or Ich sehe Indien (I see India) in Travemünde sowie in the Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lübeck. Also a memorial against war and dictator ship to commemorate 60 years of the Hamburger Feuersturm (Hamburg firetorm). The artist participated in many national and international solo- and group shows. He lives and works in Hamburg and will be present at the opening. german version
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