Georg Winter: Psychotektonik

Form is content in a nutshell

This is what Theodor W. Adorno once wrote, and Georg Winter used this sentence in the summer of 2012 as an opportunity to present the 11th Hans Molfenter Prize of the City of Stuttgart and set up an exhibition with several action spaces as EPSY (= Epicentre for Psychomotricity, Performance, Interaction) at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart. Since the 1990s, Georg Winter has built up a complex network of different performative groups, which he has repeatedly initiated and instructed on a temporary basis and which is fed by his work on two other focal points and which rightly identify him as an artist of traditional media. On the one hand, these are the unique wood prints in the run-up to the UCS (= Ukiyo Camera System) models, and on the other, the UCS models he produces himself as black lacquered wooden modules, which ultimately often represent the working equipment for the film shoots, the work locations or office situations. Georg Winter aims to create a new configuration of disciplines, combining drawing, wood printing and sculpture in a stringently structured performance. When Kasper König emphasises the creation of the ideal film in the mind as a special event in his laudatory speech for Georg Winter, this defines film as a purely intellectual process - because it does not require a materialised result, such as a "real" film - which only makes the physical relics (the modules of the UCS) shine all the more beautifully. This book, carefully compiled with the artist, is the first to attempt an overview of the core aspects of Georg Winter's multifaceted work.