(english)
Stephan Potengowski schafft Installationen, Environments und begehbare
Plastiken. Seine stringent und klar aufgebauten künstlerischen Arbeiten
handeln von Behausungen und der Sehnsucht nach einem „Zuhause“
inmitten mobiler, virtueller und globalisierter Lebens- und Arbeitsbedingungen,
sie umschließen den Betrachter und eröffnen mehrdimensionale
Raumwahrnehmungen.
In einer umfangreicheren Werkreihe schuf er zunächst begehbare Rundplastiken,
deren Form er aus der Vorstellung entwickelte, den Anfang und das Ende
eines Tunnels miteinander zu verbinden. Die so entstehenden Formen, die
er in Durchmessern bis zu 6 Metern aus mit Papier bespannten Eisenstangen
aufbaute, sind durch einen Eingang innen begehbar. Sie erinnern von außen
vage an archaische Behausungen wie z.B. Iglus oder Jurten, im ganzen jedoch
eher an virtuelle Architekturen aus dem Rasternetz eines CAD-Programmes.
Die Immaterialität solcher Formsysteme wird durch Potengowskis plastische
Formulierungen zu sinnlich und real erlebbaren Architekturen umgekehrt.
Im Innern dieser Donuts ähnelnden Tunnels installierte er Basslautsprecher,
deren Geräusche (z.B. niederfrequente Herztöne) sich auf die
Konstruktion übertragen und die Papierbespannung in Vibration versetzen.
Ein Besucher im Innern dieser Plastik erlebt sich als Teil eines virtuellen
Lebewesens, zugleich aber auch in der Unwirklichkeit einer entmaterialisierten
Architektur, die als Idee universalen Charakter annimmt.
Für seine Präsentation in der Oberwelt entwickelte er diese
Werkreihe weiter zu modellhaft konzentrierten akustischen Hörstationen,
die den Begriff des Raums in der Plastik auf überraschende Weise
neu bestimmen.
Stephan Potengowski studierte an der Akademie der Bildenden Künste
in Wien bei Michelangelo Pistoletto. Er lebt und arbeitet in Tübingen.
http://www.potengowski.com
"Wilhelm"
KlanginstallationAbschuss und Aufprall eines Pfeiles
"Django", 2007
Klanginstallation 10 min loop
2X5 Lautsprecherboxen, CD-Player, Verstärker
SCHUSSWECHSEL
Stephan
Potengowski
17. März bis 16. April
2007
Eröffnung am Samstag, den 17. März von 19 bis 2 Uhr während der Nacht der Museen
Eröffnung am Samstag, den 17. März von 19 bis 2 Uhr während der Nacht der Museen
EXCHANGE OF FIRE
Stephan Potengowski
Stephan Potengowski creates installations, environments and physically accessible sculptures. His stringent and lucidly formulated artistic works are an investigation of living spaces and the longing for “home”; in the midst of mobile, virtual and globalized living and working conditions, they enclose the viewer, opening up multi-dimensional perceptions of space.
In an extensive work series he began by creating curved sculptures that could be entered, their form developed from an idea of joining the beginning and the end of a tunnel to each other. The interiors of the resultant forms, which are constructed from iron rods spanned with paper and have diameters of up to 6 metres, can be entered through a single entryway. Externally they are vaguely reminiscent of archaic dwellings like igloos or yurts, looked at as a whole, however, they are more evocative of virtual architecture emerging from the grid network of a CAD programme.
The immateriality of such formal systems is transformed through Potengowski’s sculptural language into a sensual and real encounter with architecture. In the interior of these doughnut-like tunnels he installed bass loudspeakers whose sound (e.g. low frequency heart-beats) is dispersed into the construction causing the spanned paper to vibrate.
The visitor who finds himself in the sculpture’s interior feels himself as part of a virtual living organism, but at the same time as existing in the unreality of an immaterialised architecture, which has assumed a universal character to become an idea. For his presentation in Oberwelt Potengowski has further developed this work series into model-like, intensive, acoustic listening stations that redefine the concept of space in sculpture in a surprising way.
Stephan Potengowski studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna under Michelangelo Pistoletto. He lives and works in Tübingen.
March 17 to April 16, 2007
Opening on Saturday March 17 from 7 P.M. to 2 A.M. during Museum Night. Free entry.
Stephan Potengowski
Stephan Potengowski creates installations, environments and physically accessible sculptures. His stringent and lucidly formulated artistic works are an investigation of living spaces and the longing for “home”; in the midst of mobile, virtual and globalized living and working conditions, they enclose the viewer, opening up multi-dimensional perceptions of space.
In an extensive work series he began by creating curved sculptures that could be entered, their form developed from an idea of joining the beginning and the end of a tunnel to each other. The interiors of the resultant forms, which are constructed from iron rods spanned with paper and have diameters of up to 6 metres, can be entered through a single entryway. Externally they are vaguely reminiscent of archaic dwellings like igloos or yurts, looked at as a whole, however, they are more evocative of virtual architecture emerging from the grid network of a CAD programme.
The immateriality of such formal systems is transformed through Potengowski’s sculptural language into a sensual and real encounter with architecture. In the interior of these doughnut-like tunnels he installed bass loudspeakers whose sound (e.g. low frequency heart-beats) is dispersed into the construction causing the spanned paper to vibrate.
The visitor who finds himself in the sculpture’s interior feels himself as part of a virtual living organism, but at the same time as existing in the unreality of an immaterialised architecture, which has assumed a universal character to become an idea. For his presentation in Oberwelt Potengowski has further developed this work series into model-like, intensive, acoustic listening stations that redefine the concept of space in sculpture in a surprising way.
Stephan Potengowski studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna under Michelangelo Pistoletto. He lives and works in Tübingen.
March 17 to April 16, 2007
Opening on Saturday March 17 from 7 P.M. to 2 A.M. during Museum Night. Free entry.