Exhibition

Ed Ruscha, Philipp Timischl, Kris Lemsalu

Vienna Secession

Ed Ruscha, Nobody Denied Nothing, 2018, acrylic on vellum, ©Ed Ruscha, Courtesy of the artist and Gagosian; photo: Alexander Nussbaumer; photo: Edith Karlson

Nov 15 2018
Friedrichstraße 12
Vienna 1010
Phone: 01 5875307
19:00
free
Thursday, November 15, 2018
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Ed Ruscha, Double Americanisms
Philipp Timischl, Artworks For All Age Groups
Kris Lemsalu, Keys Open Doors

Ed Ruscha
Language, in the form of texts or single words, entered Ruscha’s visual art early on; since the 1960s, his paintings have unfolded an increasingly complex interplay between image and text. His show at the Secession marks the public debut of a new series of linguistic paintings informed by his memories of Oklahoma City, where he spent his teenage years, and the city’s distinctive slang: used parchment drumheads are inscribed with locutions whose shared feature is the use of a double negation.
For a conceptual revision of a series of paintings created between 1985 and 2017, Ruscha branched out into digital image editing. His trademark concision and dry humor are on display in Double Americanisms, which responds to the current state of American affairs with the suggestion that history’s arc is long and the present is transient.
Ed Ruscha, born in 1937 in Omaha (Nebraska), lives and works in Los Angeles.

Philipp Timischl
Major themes in Timischl’s art include the lasting influence of our roots, exclusion, and queerness in relation to social classes as well as the power dynamics between art, artist, and audience.
"Artworks For All Age Groups", the installation Timischl has created for his show at the Secession, incorporates photographs, collages and sculptures. The central photographic series shows a conspicuously glamorous female figure; it is the artist himself in drag. Yet her appearance and bearing suggest a misconception of what is normally considered appropriate in this setting.
Philipp Timischl was born in Graz in 1989 and lives and works in Vienna.

Kris Lemsalu
The Estonian artist Kris Lemsalu creates sculptures, installations, and performances that fuse the animal kingdom with humankind, nature with the artificial, beauty with repulsion, lightness with gravity, life with death. She combines animal bodies and porcelain objects with found (natural) materials such as furs, leather, seashells, wool, or paper in theatrical installations that whisk us off into a world of the fantastic imagination. Endeavoring to erase any distance between herself and her objects, the artist also uses her installations as stages for performance pieces in which her sculptures become an integral part of her attire.
Born in 1985, Kris Lemsalu lives and works in Tallinn, Estonia, and Vienna.

Until 20 January 2019

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