Hans Schabus. ‘Europa 2020-2021’
14 — 20 November 2022
- Artists
- Hans Schabus
- Venue
- Reial Cercle Artístic
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While being shown in the Sala dels Atlants in at the Reial Cercle Artístic, Hans Schabus' video will be simultaneously presented at the LOOP Fair by Galerie Krinziger (Vienna).
In the pandemic summer of 2020 Hans Schabus travelled through Europe with his dog Enzo. By train, taxi, a rented car, ferry and bus he travelled to Northcape, the northernmost point of Europe. From there, he continued is journey with a cargo bike and cycled in 39 days all the way to Tarifa, the southernmost city in continental Europe. While travelling, Hans Schabus filmed the landscape with his Smartphone always facing right. The outcome is a video work made up of 50 takes of 30 seconds each, resulting into 25 minutes of images unfolding opposite to the reading direction. A performative, sculptural survey of the European landscape and an overcoming of nation states and their borders. From the rainy North to the dry South, from wooden three huts to brick houses and stone walls, from the rich green to the dry brown. (Music by Michaela Kisling).
Hans Schabus
1970, Watschnig
Born in 1970 in Watschnig, Austria, lives and works in Vienna. From 1991–1996 Hans Schabus studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, since 2014 he is professor of sculpture and spatial design at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Hans Schabus’ works are immediately related to a spatial thinking and experience; his sculptures and interventions often refer directly to the artist’s mental and physical surroundings, especially to his atelier and the material to be processed there. The place where art is created is investigated in terms of its analogy potential with respect to life. The works can be read as a meditation on the creative act, its aspirations, but also on the difference from everyday activity. The film works that deal with traveling, speed and non-goal-oriented movement refer to the significance of an interdisciplinary reflection for art.
