Richie Culver, Karl Karner
Galerie Kandlhofer
Brucknerstrasse 4 (the entrance is between No. 4 and 6) 1040 Vienna Wien Austria
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Art Düsseldorf 2022
Areal Böhler Hansaallee 321 40549 Duesseldorf Germany
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April 7 > 10, 2022
Booth E06
Richie Culver (b.1979, Hull, UK) currently lives and works between London, UK and Porto, Portugal.
Culver’s practice encompasses diverse elements that range from painting, sculpture and photography to digital performance. Within this, Culver’s work is largely biographical wrestling with aspects of contemporary masculinity, the class system and the digital lens through which we live our lives.
A darkly humorous underlying critique of the class system is a frequent thematic element of Culver’s practice often encompassing a subversion of both the psyche and circumstances of the artist between the past and the present. The works holds several layers of interpretation, on one level a defiance against adhering to a 9-5 reality and yet also referencing the deceit in the belief that ‘hard work’ always equates to monetary success as opposed to the reality for working class people in that this suggests autonomy and self-actualization in success that is often not an economic or social reality.
Culver also furthers this exploration of class systems to include the hierarchies and exclusions within the art world discussing an uncomfortable truth that the realm of artistic production is the more natural dominion of those from more privileged economic backgrounds.
Karl Karner (b.1973 in Feldbach, Austria) lives and works in Feldbach, Austria. Karner studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna under Professor Heimo Zobernig.
Karner creates sculptures out of materials such as bronze, aluminum & various plastics. The unmistakable abstract & partly amorphous forms are created in the process of “controlled chance” when hot wax is poured into water creating unique forms, which starts his elaborate artistic casting technique. His sculptural work addresses the process of formation, activates the recipient’s power for free association who, is looking for figurative analogies; the works avoid definitive statements and an authorial positioning.
Karner positions his work between the disciplines of visual arts, perormance & dance theatre. Within his practice, he continuously discusses bodily perception & the concept of corporeality itself. These are not only related to the human body but can yet be understood as a wide discussion of object, materiality & space. In the artist's installations and art environments, viewers frequently become players. Such participative impulses accentuate the irony inherent in these artworks.
Richie Culver (b.1979, Hull, UK) currently lives and works between London, UK and Porto, Portugal.
Culver’s practice encompasses diverse elements that range from painting, sculpture and photography to digital performance. Within this, Culver’s work is largely biographical wrestling with aspects of contemporary masculinity, the class system and the digital lens through which we live our lives.
A darkly humorous underlying critique of the class system is a frequent thematic element of Culver’s practice often encompassing a subversion of both the psyche and circumstances of the artist between the past and the present. The works holds several layers of interpretation, on one level a defiance against adhering to a 9-5 reality and yet also referencing the deceit in the belief that ‘hard work’ always equates to monetary success as opposed to the reality for working class people in that this suggests autonomy and self-actualization in success that is often not an economic or social reality.
Culver also furthers this exploration of class systems to include the hierarchies and exclusions within the art world discussing an uncomfortable truth that the realm of artistic production is the more natural dominion of those from more privileged economic backgrounds.
Karl Karner (b.1973 in Feldbach, Austria) lives and works in Feldbach, Austria. Karner studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna under Professor Heimo Zobernig.
Karner creates sculptures out of materials such as bronze, aluminum & various plastics. The unmistakable abstract & partly amorphous forms are created in the process of “controlled chance” when hot wax is poured into water creating unique forms, which starts his elaborate artistic casting technique. His sculptural work addresses the process of formation, activates the recipient’s power for free association who, is looking for figurative analogies; the works avoid definitive statements and an authorial positioning.
Karner positions his work between the disciplines of visual arts, perormance & dance theatre. Within his practice, he continuously discusses bodily perception & the concept of corporeality itself. These are not only related to the human body but can yet be understood as a wide discussion of object, materiality & space. In the artist's installations and art environments, viewers frequently become players. Such participative impulses accentuate the irony inherent in these artworks.
 | Richie Culver | |
| | Karl Karner | |
Preview :
April 7, 2022 by invitation
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Opening Hours:
2022, April, 08. 12-7 pm
2022, April, 09.-10. 11-7 pm
Opening Hours:
2022, April, 08. 12-7 pm
2022, April, 09.-10. 11-7 pm
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