Georg WinterPsychotektonik

“Form is precipitated content“, so Theodor W. Adorno once wrote, and in the summer of 2012 Georg Winter took this sentence as a perfect cue on the occasion of the award of the 11th Hans Molfenter Prize of the City of Stuttgart, setting up an exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart with several spaces for action as EPSY (= Epizentrum für Psychomotorik, Performance, Interaktion). Since the 1990s Georg Winter has built up a complex web of various performative groups, temporarily initiated and instructed by him ever anew, a web fed by his work in two other main areas of his oeuvre, areas that rightly identify him as an artist of traditional media. On the one hand there are the unique woodblock prints made in preparation for the models of the UCS (= Ukiyo Camera Systems), on the other the models of the UCS themselves, produced as black-lacquered wooden modules, which in many cases ultimately constitute the working equipment for the film shoots, the workplaces or the office situations. Georg Winter aims at a new configuration of the disciplines, joining drawing, woodblock printing and sculpture by means of a performance built up as a rigorous sequence of actions. When Kasper König, in his laudation for Georg Winter, singles out the emergence of the ideal film in the mind as a special event, this defines film – since it requires no materialised result, no „real“ film as it were – as a purely intellectual process, one that makes the physical relics (the modules of the UCS) shine all the more beautifully. Carefully developed together with the artist, the book offers a first survey of the key aspects of Georg Winter’s multifaceted oeuvre.