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May. 29, 2010
›Logie, Aberdeen‹ (from the series ›Oil Rigs‹) by Ernst Logar
Est: €2,000 - €2,400
In 2008 Logar was invited to work on a project in Europe's oil capital, the Scottish city of Aberdeen. During his time there, he started a multi-part series called Invisible Oil wherein he investigates the socioeconomic parameters of this industry. Amongst other works the series Oil Rigs developed. In this work he used stranded plastic goods - produced from oil derivatives - to sculpt miniature oilrigs. With this ironic-allegorical mix of the all encompassing, ever-present economic dependency on oil with the connotations of throwaway society, the artist manages to convincingly summarise a whole discourse on the problem. [Michael Ponstingl] ›Logie, Aberdeen‹ (from the series ›Oil Rigs‹) 2008 zu einem Arbeitsaufenthalt ins schottische Aberdeen, Europas »Erdölhauptstadt«, eingeladen, entstand dort das mehrteilige Projekt Invisible Oil. Darin untersucht Ernst Logar sozioökonomische Parameter dieser Industrie. Unter anderem ist daraus die Serie Oil Rigs hervorgegangen. Dabei wurden am Strand angeschwemmte Plastikobjekte - diese sind hergestellt aus Erdölderivaten - zu Miniatur-Ölplattformen kompiliert. Mit dieser ironisch-allegorischen Amalgamierung von umfassender wirtschaftlicher Abhängigkeit vom Erdöl und Wegwerfgesellschaft verdichtet der Künstler überzeugend einen ganzen Problemdiskurs. [Michael Ponstingl]
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May. 29, 2010
›Tuen Wan‹ (from the series ›The Hong Kong Project‹) by Ernst Logar
Est: €2,200 - €2,600
›Tuen Wan‹ (from the series ›The Hong Kong Project‹) by Ernst Logar
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May. 29, 2010
›Hong Kong Stock Exchange‹ (from the series ›The Hong Kong Project‹) by Ernst Logar
Est: €2,200 - €2,600
Hongkong, the fast paced metropolis that never stands still, meets Ernst Logar's pinhole camera, which stands at the exact opposite end of the spectrum of speed. Instead of using a hand-held quick Leica, he decides to employ a camera without lens, taking minutes until the outlines of the image emerge on the light sensitive chemical layer. Like in the first Daguerreotypes, the picture seems strangely void of humans, who are simply moving too quickly to be caught by the camera. From this dialectic tension between mind numbing speed and the photographic process of slowing things down, the artist creates an urban still life. The Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten in Klagenfurt, Carinthia, and the Austrian national photographic collection at the Museum der Moderne Salzburg own works from the series Hong Kong Project. [Michael Ponstingl] ›Hong Kong Stock Exchange‹ (from the series ›The Hong Kong Project‹) Der fieberhaften und rastlosen Metropole Hongkong begegnet Ernst Logar nicht etwa mit einer handlichen, der Geschwindigkeit des dortigen täglichen Lebens angemessenen Leica, sondern er setzt auf eine träge Lochkamera. Bei dieser objektivlosen Kamera dauert es Minuten, bis sich Bildkonturen auf der lichtsensiblen Schicht abzeichnen. Das ist auch der Grund, weshalb die Fotografien - wie die ersten Daguerreotypien - so entvölkert wirken: die Menschen bewegen sich einfach zu schnell. Aus dieser dialektischen Spannung von rasendem Tempo und lichtbildnerischer Verlangsamung kreiert der Künstler urbane Stillleben. Das Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten, Klagenfurt, und die Fotosammlung des Bunds im Museum der Moderne Salzburg besitzen Arbeiten aus dem Hong Kong Project. [Michael Ponstingl]
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