Europa 2020-2021
Hans Schabus
Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
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- Title
- Europa 2020-2021
- Gallery
- Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
- Year
- 2020
- Duration
- 25 min
- Format & Technical
iPhone 11 Pro, Single-Channel Video, Colour, Sound
- Camera
- Music
- Mixing and mastering music
- Color and audio correction
In the pandemic summer of 2020 Hans Schabus traveld with his dog Enzo through the whole of Europe. With the train, taxi, rental car, ferry and bus he travled to the Northcape, the most northern point of Europe. From there he continued is journey with a cargo bike and cicled in 39 days all the way to Tariffa, the most southern city on the European mainland. Wile passing through the landscape Hans Schabus filmed the scenery with his Smartphone, always facing right. The result are 50 takes of 30 seconds each, summed up to 25 minutes in one movement against 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 3 huts to brick houses to stone walls, from the rich green to dry brown.
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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.
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Galerie Krinzinger
- Address
- Seilerstätte 16, 1010, Vienna, Austria
- Phone
- +4315133006
- Website
- www.galerie-krinzinger.at
Galerie Krinzinger was founded in 1971 by art-historian Dr. Ursula Krinzinger. Since then, she has organized at least 500 exhibitions of national and international artists, mounting solo, group and thematic shows. The main interest and source of the gallery program stems, on the one hand, from international performance and body related art on the other hand, from Viennese actionism. Additionally, the gallery has been working with national and international artists. Besides the gallery program, Ursula Krinzinger organizes and curates exhibitions in various spaces outside the gallery, including the gallery’s second space: Krinzinger Schottenfeld, which was founded in 2002 as Krinzinger Projekte. Internationally orientated, group and topic exhibitions define the program, which quickly earned an international reputation. Krinzinger Schottenfeld joins Galerie Krinzinger in inviting young national and international artists to take part in the gallery’s artist-in-residence program.