Christoph SCHIRMER
Installation view, "ALLGEMEINANÄSTHESIE", 2010, Brunnhofer Gallery
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Schirmer “switches” between the currently available new media and the traditional panel picture. The artist favours the intuitive work process and sensuous materiality over the illusory spaces on the flickering flat screens. […] Schirmer slurs several pictorial levels into each other, displaces the axis, fans out foreshortened perspectives and oblique lines into the pictorial levels – a spatial kaleidoscope takes shape. As in a scintillescent trick picture, the individual pictorial levels move back and forth. A clearly differentiated figure-ground relationship is waived in favour of a complex camouflage. Added to this is the moment of simultaneity. Instead of a conventional, “impressionist” reproduction of a moment in time, of a situation, we have a sampling effect, chatoyant and enigmatic. (Excerpt: Florian Steininger, Curator, Bank Austria Kunstforum, Vienna, 2011; trans. by Abigail Prohaska, Berlin 2011)