Fabian Fink - Vier Stunden
Skulpturinstitut
is run as a project by the Department Sculpture and Space.
Space, endless expanses. In the swamps of Dornlockda
the dark ruler stirs, the production of androids will continue to receive no attention, new materials are made from old matter,
many drones are shot down and the next season is sure to come. It is no mistake to question things again, even if amply considered,
but at some point a sediment should settle out of the whole mishmash in which one no longer sinks. I still have to take turns.
The interval has slowed down and sometimes I have to remind myself not to neglect the sculpture.
The
central work in this exhibition is a series of four female figures carved from oak, each carrying a bell. After having produced
some sculptures that can be described as furniture and many other commissioned works, I wanted to carve these bodies to emphasize
my preference for classical sculptures. In the working process, I tried to work on all of them at the same time, as simultaneous
as possible. I was interested in repetition and reproduction, as well as trying to work economically, and my perception of
time.
Then there is a diamond connection, also a theme that has preoccupied me for decades, and a small leftover commissioned
work that I like.
Fabian Fink, born in Salzburg in 1979, lives and works in Vienna. He trained
as a wood sculptor at the School of Sculpture in Hallein and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He was artist
in residence in Paris (2008), Yogyakarta (2012), Berlin (2014), Varanasi (2015) and Beijing (2016).
