Description
How language-based is reality really? How does meaning come into the word and how does the word come into the world? How can thoughts, feelings and moods be captured artistically? Which signs or languages have to be invented first? In his multi-layered work, Nikolaus Gansterer explores the ambivalent relationship between drawing, thinking and acting. The artist observes corporeal information cycles between recognizing and naming, hearing and saying, writing and recording, remembering and forgetting, thereby revealing immanent constructions of reality. In recent years, Gansterer has intensively studied the work of the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein and developed various forms of translation. In his solo exhibition at Galerie Petra Seiser, he provides a current insight into various groups of works and thematizes the subtle processes of sense-making and language play in the form of drawings, wall reliefs and sculptures. Nikolaus Gansterer succeeds in playfully questioning and undermining the apparent boundaries between language and material, art and philosophy through drawing and thinking. Opening of the solo exhibition Vom Hören Sagen / By Hearsay at Galerie Petra Seiser, Schörfling am Attersee on Saturday, May 4, 2024 at 11 am. The artist will be present. The exhibition runs till June 23, 2024.