Markus Schinwald

by Schinwald, Markus (ART); Meyer, Roland; Stuffer, Ute; Ullrich, Wolfgang

• ISBN13: 9783869842363
• ISBN10: 3869842369
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-04-30
• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc

Summary

Markus Schinwald is one of the most important contemporary Austrian artists. Since the end of the 1990s, the human body as the projection screen of individual existence and as a cultural construct has been at the centre of his works.Playfully located in the visual arts as well as in dance and performance, his work combines diverse media ranging from magical, mystic films and photographs to prosthetic fashion designs, and reworked historical paintings in stage-like spaces to form complex interrelationships which radiate an eccentric ambivalence: their seductively beautiful surfaces have an almost hypnotic attraction on the viewer while the subjects remain structurally unsolvable and puzzlingly alien.Schinwald's works go far beyond visual perception, focusing on the precise moment in which the rational disposability over the body expires, ultimately confronting us with the question of our own construction.Published to accompany the exhibition at Kunstverein Hannover and Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz in 2011 2012.English and German text.