We frequently consider artists as having a singular voice, inner, intentional and regarded. We additionally acknowledge that artists can occupy a number of positions and draw from outdoors influences typically intuitively, incorporating the expressions of earlier generations of artists within the movement of up to date follow. The problem in an exhibition like this, and perhaps in any exhibition, is to create a scenario wherein the actions of various generations of artists reveal a shared understanding of their frequent perception into the important nature of the artwork in addition to its distinguishing character. By way of their work, artists typically convey specific feelings which can be drawn from the small print of their scenario, addressing the qualities of their time and place and serving to to outline it. This shared drive to mirror a real illustration of lived expertise appears steady from technology to technology and exists partially as recognition that even when issues really feel incongruous there may be additionally an unbroken sense of a standard aspiration current over time. For instance, in Lisa DeAbreu’s work we sense a search and eager for what’s lacking in a household’s and tradition’s historical past that will by no means be totally reconciled however could also be represented. In the identical room as DeAbreu’s Forgotten & Foreseen, 2024, Stephen Parrino’s Freud in Flop,1987, and Hirsch Perlman’s Accidence (5),1989, characterize absence actually and rhetorically in ways in which indicate that absence is crucial to the entire of our understanding, exemplifying how generations of artists typically contact on like themes in numerous methods.

—Gaylen Gerber

curated by
Gaylen Gerber

Taking part artists:
Lisa Danielle DeAbreu, Jeanne Dunning, Steven Parrino, Hirsch Perlman, Pope L., Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo), Wilhelm Schürmann, James Welling, Rémy Zaugg, Heimo Zobernig

at Emanuel Layr, Vienna
till October 19, 2024