After its autonomization in the 1920s, medial reality production began to gradually slip out of our realm
of influence. By means of selected avant-garde movies Daniel Egg examines the medium film, sharpening our awareness of the
concise distinction between the ephemeral and the concrete.
Focusing on impurities, emulsion
resolutions, torn films, he separates essence from reality, incorporates transience and memory, makes the seemingly invisible
visible, and in turn, creates analogous sculptures.
Egg concentrates on developing new transformations, evokes
the entire spectrum of light with white paint, and thus opens up distinctive interpretations of reality. It is not the narrative
which turns out to be the essence of the medium and perception, but the flare-up of lapses and flaws which serves to verify
reality.
Elisabeth Fiedler
Daniel Egg, born in Vienna 1973, 1994-2001 University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Exhibitions (selection): Gallery Sies+Höke, Düsseldorf, Projektraum Viktor Bucher, Vienna, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Neue Galerie
Graz, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Future Cinema ZKM, Karlsruhe, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki.
curated by: Ruth Schnell and Tommy Schneider
Opening hours: daily 10:00 – 22:00
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