Staging Silence (3)
Hans Op de Beeck
Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
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- Title
- Staging Silence (3)
- Gallery
- Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
- Year
- 2019
- Duration
- 44 min
- Format & Technical
HD video.
"Staging Silence (3)" is the third and final instalment in a series of autonomous art films, all realised according to the same principles.
In the three films, two pairs of anonymous hands construct and deconstruct fictional interiors and landscapes on a mini film set of just three square meters in size. This film takes the viewer on a visual journey through depopulated, enigmatic and often melancholic, but nonetheless playful, small-scaled places, which are built up and taken down before the eye of the camera. The two pairs of anonymous hands, like a double Deus ex Machina of sorts, decide on the life and death, growth and blossoming or decay of the places that are conjured up. The landscapes and interiors are teaming with cultural and subcultural references, including historical as well as current themes that refer to the way in which man – both in his dealings with architecture and with nature — ‘humanises’ the open space in an attempt to create meaning, identity and a logical interaction with time.
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Hans Op de Beeck (Turnhout, 1969) lives and works in Brussels and Gooik, Belgium. He has shown his work extensively in solo and group exhibitions around the world.
He produces large installations, sculptures, films, drawings, paintings, photographs and texts. His work is a reflection on our complex society and the universal questions of meaning and mortality that resonate within it. He regards the man as a being who stages the world around him in a tragi-comic way. Op de Beeck is keen to stimulate the viewers’ senses and invite them to really experience the image. He seeks to create a form of visual fiction that delivers a moment of wonder, silence and introspection.
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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.