Art Rotterdam 2019
Show: 07/02/19 - 10/02/19
Artist(s) on show
Kay Walkowiak
KAY WALKOWIAK Vienna in November 2018
The densification of spatial images is not only
deliberately elevated to the level of the historic imaginary
but also introduced into a montage of temporalities.
With this, Walkowiak succeeds in evoking the memory
of an idea of the future that has now itself become the
past. In this way the artist explores utopian aspirations
historically associated with Chandigarh and at the
same time gives the city the character of a dystopia. A
comparable dialectic between factual stocktaking and
fictitious transformation that draws on the fund of the
historic imaginary also characterizes the sculptures he has
created in recent years, such as Future Fragments of Past
Forms #3, and the 2016 video work Waterfall. Like The
City Lost, they reveal the artist‘s fundamental search for
the spirits of the past in the visual forms of the present.
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Excerpt from Stephanie Damianitsch‘s text for the
publication „Traces of Time“, Leopold Museum, 2017