translated and summarized by: Liz Wollner-Grandville,
220210: MUSA – Museum auf Abruf Stefan Glettler
MUSA – Museum auf Abruf
Stefan Glettler
22.01.10 – 25.02.10
Material art
Attractive bizarre objects, with - at a first glance - an indefinable materiality, are standing or hanging – as if they had just arrived from a different world – in the rooms of the Startgalerie. Sculptures made of iron, wood, leather and other materials, are all marked by their elaborate and skilful processing. Some of the sculptures remind of coral-like ocean forms, as shown in documentaries on deep-sea worlds.
The combination of the reduced, clear form and the sensual surface structures distinguish all of Stefan Glettler’s (born 1980) works. The artist developed the surface design as a distinct form of art. Rarely is it as exciting to simply deal with the object itself, without having to consider any meaning or context. A contextualisation would distract from the own, inherent logic, material and form of these works. Not randomly, but rather with a surprising consequence do the individual materials find their individual matching form. Leather turns into a slightly curved, soft and flexible, but in no way weak, abstraction of a fin; and wool is wound around a nearly 2 meter tall pointed object.
The artist refrains from simply choosing the most obvious forms for his objects; instead he chooses the most exciting, which explains the strong presence of the sculptures in the room.
The few paintings in the exhibition are a logical supplement to the objects and radiate their own haptic quality. However, the monochrome-abstract canvases are inconceivable without the other works.
By Wolfgang Pichler
MUSA – Museum auf Abruf
1010 Vienna, Felderstrasse 6-8, next to the city hall
Phone: +43 (0)1 4000 8400
Fax: +43 (0)1 4000 99 8400
email: musa@musa.at
http://www.musa.at
Opening hours: Tue – Fri: 11 a.m. – 6 p.m., Thu: 11 a.m. – 8 p.m., Sat: 11 a.m. – 8 p.m.
220210
MUSA
1010 Wien, Felderstraße 6-8, neben dem Rathaus
Tel: +43 (0)1 4000 8400, Fax: +43 (0)1 4000 99 8400
Email: musa@musa.at
http://www.musa.at
Öffnungszeiten: Di - Fr: 11:00 - 18:00, Do: 11:00 - 20:00, Sa: 11:00 - 16:00 Uhr
MUSA
1010 Wien, Felderstraße 6-8, neben dem Rathaus
Tel: +43 (0)1 4000 8400, Fax: +43 (0)1 4000 99 8400
Email: musa@musa.at
http://www.musa.at
Öffnungszeiten: Di - Fr: 11:00 - 18:00, Do: 11:00 - 20:00, Sa: 11:00 - 16:00 Uhr