VIN VIN Gallery curated by Francesco Tenaglia
„Eureka!“

4.9. - 2.10.2021 Press release Arrow
VIN VIN Gallery, Hintzerstraße 4/1, 1030 Vienna
www.vinvin.eu

Curator(s):

Francesco Tenaglia More Arrow
Francesco Tenaglia is a critic and a curator. Artistic Director of Sgomento Zurigo exhibition space in Zürich, he is currently serving as part of the curatorial and research team at Museion (Bolzano) and he is professor of Art Theory and Criticism at Nuova Accademia d’Arte (NABA) in Milan. He has recently curatedUrfaust (2021) at Tarsia, Naples; Nothing but Time (2021) at Goswell Road, Parigi; Cosmopolitan Haze (2020) at Bungalow-Chertlüdde, Berlino; 1550 San Remo Drive at Hot Wheels Athens; Il Ghirigoro (2019), at Pio Pico, Los Angeles. His writings have appeared on Il Foglio Arte, Art Agenda, Art Review, Artforum, Flash Art among others. He is on the board of the Almanac contemporary art project in London and Turin.
Courtesy of Francesco Tenaglia

Artist(s):

  • Frieda Toranzo Jaeger
  • Isabella Costabile
  • Shaun Motsi
  • J. Parker Valentine
  • Zac Langdon-Pole

Exhibition text

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eureka!

 

The French philosopher Henri Bergson, in a collection of essays published at the beginning of the last century, identifies the essential requirements of comedy: it is inextricably linked to the human being; it needs a momentary distancing from the source of hilarity; and it is a phenomenon that cannot ignore sociality. Even when one laughs in solitude, one laughs in community. Comedy occurs, according to Bergson, when we are faced with behaviors that signal automatism, distraction, or insouciance. Imitations amuse when they reflect mechanical aspects of the imitated, which is then reborn as a double camouflage, like a puppet. The comedic moment, therefore, is a moment of rupture that highlights the mechanical taking over some possibilities of life. eureka! takes its cue from these reflections, reflecting procedures of comedy via works that manifest a disjunction with respect to the literal appearance that solidifies the personal or sociopolitical concerns that informed them. Similarly, the exhibition looks at comedy tactics—false clues, double entendre, hyperbole, circularity, puns, refrains—building a path that articulates different artistic practices in a narrative whose ultimate goal is not laughter. Like a story that mimics a frozen joke, but which—programmatically—doesn’t seek a release effect.

 

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Frieda Toranzo Jaeger: ... and yet we are becoming,
Oil and fabric on canvas 300 x 150 x 250 cm | 118 x 59 x 98 1/2 in
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin
Frieda Toranzo Jaeger: Allegorie auf die Geschichte nach Sappho
Oil on canvas 80 x 198 cm | 31 1/2 x 78 in
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin
Isabella Costabile: Luoghi sotto l’ombra e sotto il sole
Mixed media on aluminum pool chair, canvas, mosquito net, iron rake, wood 92 x 55 x 185 cm
© Image: courtesy of the artist
Isabella Costabile: Untitled
Iron grills, plastic lid, plastic spool, iron chair frame, steel threaded rods, bolts, iron flange 110 x 61 x 37 cm
© Image: courtesy of the artist
Shaun Motsi: Bad-Bar Blues
Oil on linen 49 x 42 cm. The work is installed at Kunsthalle Portikus, Frankfurt am Main as part of the group exhibition L'Esprit Image
courtesy the artist
Shaun Motsi: NGO
Oil on linen 40 x 50 cm The work is installed at Kunsthalle Portikus, Frankfurt am Main as part of the group exhibition L'Esprit Image
courtesy the artist
J. Parker Valentine: Untitled
mixed media on canvas 212.7 x 138.4 cm
© Image: courtesy of the artist
J. Parker Valentine: Untitled (Fallen Sentence)
Cotton, fibreglass, brass, clay, cutch, graphite, ink, felt tip, silk, string 119 x 129 x 25 cm
© Image: courtesy of the artist
Zac Langdon-Pole: Dust As Dust As Dust (All The Way Down)
60 million-year-old fossilised tortoise shell, Miele C3 vacuum cleaner, cardboard box
© Image: courtesy of the artist