Galerie Martin Janda curated by Manuela Moscoso und Ariel Schlesinger
„Coffee Shop — Wine Bar“

13.9 - 12.10.2019 Press release Arrow
Galerie Martin Janda, Eschenbachgasse 11, 1010 Vienna
www.martinjanda.at

Curator(s):

Manuela Moscoso und Ariel Schlesinger

Artist(s):

  • Ariel Schlesinger
  • Kitty Kraus
  • Santiago de Paoli

Exhibition text

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I was sitting in a bar and I remembered what Sebastian Black once wrote to me:

“In my neighbourhood there is a coffee shop that turns into a wine bar at night. I went there one afternoon to relax and browse through some anarchist pam- phlets that had been handed to me at a march that I had inadvertently joined while trying to cross the street to buy a pack of cigarettes. I sat down with my latte and absentmindedly leafed through the photo- copied pages. My thoughts wandered back and forth in time for a while. I thought about websites where I could find easy pasta recipes and about a bully I knew once in summer camp. Eventually the sun went down, and my thoughts reassembled themselves in the present. I looked down into my cup, and my coffee had turned into wine.”

 

Coffee Shop – Wine Bar is an exhibition by Sebastian Black, Santiago de Paoli, Kitty Kraus, Elena Tejada-Herrera, Sergio Prego and Ariel Schlesinger, which engages with states of matter, bodily contortions and figure/ground entanglements.

Photos

Ariel Schlesinger: Untitled (Broken mirrors)
Mirror, glass, glue; 60 x 50 x 85 cm
Courtesy the artist and Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Photo: Andrea Gilberti – Alberto Petrò
Kitty Kraus: Untitled
Halogen lamp, antenna, cable; dimensions variable
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Neu, Berlin
Santiago de Paoli: First Steps
Oil on wood, 54 × 50.5 cm
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Jocelyn Wolff