PRESS RELEASE
Graz, 25 October 2010
The arteparti gallery presents a solo exhibition featuring new work by Jack Bauer.
Jack Bauer develops recurring themes from free painting and drawing, which are
characterized by perceptions of nature as well as philosophical reflections. Experiences and
thoughts from everyday life and extensive travels are assimilated into cycles like ‘Zickzack’ or
‘Aescher’, which complement each other in a playful way and show autobiographical traits.
zickzack
Zickzack's snout meanders through the series of pictures in red color, sniffing at strategically
naked women, one ready for a kiss with the nocturnal bird while the other, as Dulcinea,
laughs at the gallant with the toby collar. The Minotaur is sovereignly enthroned between
them. It is creatures of the night and of sleep that Zickzack is sniffing at. It is a pandemonium
without ifs and buts, which no argument can pervade, in which only intuitive beholding or at
most symbolic thinking exists. Forebodingly and suddenly, I try to understand the dialectics
of fantasy. Fantasy multiplies our world and ourselves, taking it and us into an infinite
process of change.
If, in Zickzack, a human being can recognize all contradictory determinations of himself up
until now and all previous moments are dismissed, marginalized and at the same time
preserved, intuitive progress is taking place. And this is how we chase Zickzack to the title.
Martin Titz, 2010
Jack Bauer, born 1971 in Graz, has lived and worked in Vienna and Slovenia.
1985-91 School of Applied Arts, Graz (Prof. Gerhard Lojen)
1991-95 University of Applied Arts, Vienna (Prof. Attersee)
Collaboration with Martin Kippenberger and Franz West
Foundation of the ‘Pokerrunde’ with David Ebmer, Christof Gantner and Anton
Herzl
1996 Stage design and costumes for Wolfgang Bauer's ‘Die Menschenfabrik‘
Schauspielhaus Graz
1998 Kunstförderungspreis of the city of Graz
2005 Foundation of the Forum Oseimos
Exhibition info
Exhibition title zickzack
Artist Jack Bauer
Press conference 30 October 2010, 5 p.m.
Duration 1 November to 30 November 2010
Location artepari gallery, Peter-Tunner-Gasse 60, 8020 Graz, Austria
Exhibited works new work (painting and graphic art)
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