COLOUR ON A JOURNEY - PHOTOGRAPHS 1999-2002

EXHIBITION VIENNA

JULY 1 - SEPTEMBER 19, 2003 ISPA-ISPART

To see a slideset of the pictures of the exhibition - click here.
Impressions from the exhibition venue - click here.

Colour on a Journey Photographs 1999-2002

Who defines the content of beauty, who dictates the spirit of the age?
Wherein is the meaning of permanent replacement and why do we follow a credo of “the beauty lies in innovation”?

In their breakup things show their real content and meaning, their lasting soul. Covertly time follows points in time. Disintegrating colour, splintered parts, a broken view on transitoriness.

Gestures and expression do not surrender. A face is broken, provisionally healed by adhesive tape, hence conserving the facile mien. Behind it frowning faces flocking together in their unconsciousness. What is betoken here, is waiting as abysm behind a red mask.

Colour drips along a head and one eye is reddened. Blue and yellow on white besides a fevered eye. Genuineness and truth cover fictitiousness – or is it the other way round?

A proud mannequin in Amsterdam finds itself opposite to a oppressed one in Paris. Another mannequin is getting married, her dress has seen better times.

A mannequin is cancelled but not deleted. A dolly is headless and stares into an abysm without its skullcap. A nightmare. Or just plastic?

Back-pedalling, persisting. Lithified gestures. Fear and loneliness. And colour everywhere.

In Amsterdam a bulb is dangling out of a frame made of chrome, in Romania a “light-less” green bus is donating shade.

French bathing tubes are fragile, wearing the colours of past times.
Dutch graveyard candles are shining, showing a colourful trinity of kitsch.

Bukarest sells underwear under the sky and mocks modernity through wedding dresses. Everyday occurrences do not lead the way out of the misery of middlingness.

Rodenbach goes under in his grave, another figure is falling.
In Burano a sculpture fights between the Apollonian and the Dionysian, just like a broken dress form in Siena or lots of books on a flew market in Amsterdam.

Latvia sells colours in small cans, in smaller and larger doses.
In between all that mugging, recalling, a flashlight.

Margit Brandl

To see the slideset of the first Brokenmuses Vienna exhibition, click here.

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