Gerwald Rockenschaub:

2275 m3

Markus Sixay

21 July-25 Sep. 2005

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2002, Farbfolien auf Alucore, Aluminiumrahmen, 150 x 250 cm

Gerwald Rockenschaub (born 1952) is one of Austria's internationally best known artists. In the early 1980s, he began to establish his complex oeuvre of paintings, prints, objects, computer animations, and room installations. It is characterized by the principle of reducing, of concentrating on few but essential elements and structures.

Farbfolien auf Alucore, Aluminiumrahmen, 150 x 250 cm

In his works, Gerwald Rockenschaub refers to the ideas and positions of modern art as well as to the phenomenon of everyday life and of pop culture.

For the exhibition 2275 m3 in the Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Gerwald Rockenschaub has created a specific route which integrates some of his most important works and ideas since the early 1980s. The different objects relate to each other as well as to the rooms of the exhibition hall, thus creating a new work of art which encircles 2275 m3, the exact volume of the Kunsthalle Nürnberg.

2000, aufblasbares Objekt, farblose, transluzente PVC-Folie, elektrisches Gebläse,
320 x 680 x 440 cm

A comprehensive Catalogue with essays by Roger M. Buergel, Wolfgang Drechsler and Jörg Heiser has been published as catalogue raisonné in cooperation with the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna by Walther König (Cologne).

Courtesy:Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin; Galerie Georg Kargl, Wien; Galerie Susanna Kulli, Zürich; MUMOK, Wien; Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg; Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich; Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Paris

Markus Sixay

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Papierabfall der Kunsthallenverwaltung vom 14.7. - 25.9.2005
Courtesy Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin