Chimera-Project
is pleased to announce it’s upcoming
exhibition
entitled “
Investigative Painting
”, opening on March 12th, 7pm. With an international focus the exhibition will show newest and latest paintings by the artists
Johanna Binder
from Austria,
Gábor Erdélyi
from Hungary and
Magda Wegrzyn
from Poland.
The phrase „investigative” refers to quote by the british media theorist
Hugo de Burgh
, who states that “an investigative journalist is a man or woman whose profession it is to discover the truth and to identify lapses from it in whatever media may be available.”
Conceptual political artworks by artists like
Hans Haake
(e.g. Shapolsky et al Manhattan Real Estate Holdings, A Real-Time Social System as of May 1, 1971) prove that the very same investigative approach reached artistic practice a long time ago. The exhibition now applies and updates the term regarding abstract painting. By inviting three painters, the curators do not expect the artists to discover a particular or even universal truth, as proclaimed by some art historical forerunners (e.g. Ad Reinhardt) from the 20. century. The interest rather lies in the lapses de Burgh mention. We believe that even today, in the well researched field of abstract painting with it’s rich past, it is still possible for artists to discover lapses - some of the missing parts that may to through a new light on a certain aspect, so far never paid attention to.
But to be able to identify and uncover lapses, an investigative approach is of great importance. For journalists and artists alike, a deep research is the essential part of the working process. All of the invited artists share a research-based artistic process and deal with the diverse aspects abstract painting can contain these days - but their methods and aims are different: while Johanna Binder examines the basic elements of painting (paint, canvas and frame), then takes them apart and deconstructs them, Magda Wegrzyn’s research is based on a mathematical theory of communication and addresses questions of perception and communication in tune with aesthetics, digital technologies and the medium of painting. Gábor Erdélyi’s minimalistic canvases are experimenting with the tradition of monochrome.
