Andrea WinklerFamous Quotes by Famous People

Born in Zurich in 1970, the abstract artist Andrea Winkler intervenes in the exhibition space, creating spatial pictures out of multi-part installations that vary greatly according to the viewer’s standpoint. In a combination of sculptural elements with coloured papers, graffiti and barrier elements that dictate the route through her spatial picture, she not only plays a game with moments of emptiness and vagueness but also leads viewers into an extreme close-up view or a distanced overview. Winkler’s installations are coherent, yet, as the title would seem to suggest, they in fact quote no models but simply function, and in doing so exert a pull, as though in a mixture of improvised lightness and aesthetically rigorous stylisation. And this glamour, of the kind otherwise exuded by celebrities, is proper to art as well when it generates spatial pictures in a dramaturgy that seems fully composed.

Exhibition:
Kunstverein Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen, 18/6 – 28/8/2011