October 4 – October 24, 2024
Tombola VII, ES49, Vienna, AT
with Ekaterina Shapiro-Obermair
Alle diese Erfahrungen wünschte sie noch zuletzt durch den Sinn des Auges
zusammenzufassen und das, was sie nur mutmaßte, zu bestätigen. Sie glaubte sich nun fähig durch ihr eigenes Licht dieses wunderbare unterirdische Gewölbe zu erleuchten und hoffe auf einmal mit diesen sonderbaren Gegenständen völlig bekannt zu werden.
Goethe, »Märchen« aus »Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderter«, 1795.
Through his writings and research, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is considered the founder of perceptual psychology. However, only few people know that he was short-sightedness in one of his eyes and had a normal vision in the other. In optometrical therms, this monovision is called Goetheblick. The image is composed of two areas of depth of field in the brain. The work Pars pro toto - Monovision depicts an eye that is neither a left nor a right one. It floats - fixed on a tin can - centred in front of a disc with a radial, hypnotic pattern in black and white. The high contrasts of the painting evoke a restless circular movement, while the flesh-coloured eye object looks like an organic but motionless body. Can this eye see at all? And if so, is it looking outwards or introspectiv? The work is a collaboration between the two visual artists Ekaterina Shapiro-Obermair and Wolfgang Obermair and their 9-year-old daughter Hannah. The eye is a direct translation of a miniature made of clay that she has modelled. The entire sculpture can be read as a social sculpture in a parental context. It refers to an ambivalence between observation and attention and is anchored in mythological as well as childlike ideas.
Wolfgang Obermair & Ekaterina Shapiro-Obermair
PARS PRO TOTO - MONOVISION
Gouache on wood, tin can, 3D print
2024
Tombola VII | ES49
Inauguration, 3.10.2024, 7 PM
Where: ES49 Erdbergstraße 49, 1030 Vienna
With :
Bianca Pedrina & Martin Chramosta
Patrícia J. Reis & Fernando Mesquita
Saskia Te Nicklin & Steffi Alte
Leon Höllhumer & Philipp Pess
Daniel Rajcsanyi & Aurelia van Kempen
Cäcilia Brown & Maruša Sagadin
Ekaterina Shapiro-Obermair & Wolfgang Obermair
Ines Hochgerner & Nino Svireli
Markus Proschek & Lukas Janitsch
Thea Moeller & Helmut Heiss
Michael Part & Bernhard Weber
Iris Andraschek & Hubert Lobnig
Markus Guschelbauer & Selina de Beauclair
Parastu Gharabaghi & Hélène Fauquet
Alexandru Cosarca & Manuel Cyrill
David Mase & Markus Benjamin Riedler
Laia Fabre & Katarina Spielmann
Julia Zastava & Lucas Henao Serna
ES49
Erdbergstraße 49, 1030 Vienna
October 4 to October 24, 2024
Opening: Thursday, October 3, 2024, 7 PM
Midissage and dialog-tour between the artists and the organizers: October 17, 2024, 7 PM
Finissage and Zine Presentation: October 24, 2024, 7 PM
Tombola is an exhibition format initiated by Terese Kasalicky and Heti Prack. Teams of artists are invited to contribute their themes and media to a lottery pot, from which raffle tickets are drawn. The conditions for the artworks are determined by chance, and the resulting works are exhibited
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Wolfgang Obermair Dresdner Strasse 46/10 1200 Vienna / Austria