Manuel Knapp – l===l – invitation to the exhibition
Opening on Thursday, January 9, 2014, at 6:00 PM
The exhibition will last until February 9, 2014
Gallery of Contemporary Art and Architecture – House of Art of the City of České Budějovice
Curator DU: Michal Škoda
A fundamental theme in the work of Manuel Knapp is space and perception. This is an issue that is not uncommon in contemporary art; however, the way the author works can certainly be regarded as quite unique – personal.
Knapp engages in both "classical" painting and spatial installations, mural painting, graphics, video, and to a large extent, computer animation. In a remarkable way, he combines classical media/object, painting/with the world of technology/electronics/.
In both painting and animation, he works with the overlapping of images, graphic forms, and media planes in the foreground and background, thus creating image surfaces with a high visual experience that do not serve as a referential link to three-dimensional space. He creates his own spatiality of pure visuality. Knapp is very interested in the limits of visibility, where it can be said that central roles are played by moments like "just about" and "almost already".
However, an unmistakable issue in his works is also the questions relating to the construction and deconstruction of space through shadow – shadow as space. Knapp's very sensitive perception and personal ideas about the influence and work with space confronts with the world of computers, and through programming, he creates various scenes that are then integrated into the given space during projections. This allows him to disrupt three-dimensionality and create an imaginary space that operates with instability and transience, constructed and simultaneously deconstructed by a continuous change of ever-new/animation/definitions of its components.
In the paintings of Manuel Knapp, constructive tendencies can also be found, as well as references to Cartesian coordinate space. Simple geometric forms and lines form a considerably reduced vocabulary of shapes and colors for the artist. Own lines become less properties of existing things in terms of contour, but rather a creation of divisions. Last but not least, it is also necessary to mention the presence of "sound," where Knapp works on the threshold between information and disinformation/noise/.
How we move in the spaces of Manuel Knapp's exhibition, the variability of our stance, the temporal sequence of experiences and perceptions plays a central role in communicating with his work. The own movement limits, from which time point something becomes information about color, and from when it is decoded as information that it concerns shadow. The change in the viewer's stance is thus very important, uncovering the lability of perception and one's own "images" becoming a deregulating aesthetic transformer, offering structured diversity. David Komary beautifully explains this in one of his texts as "the seen appears as something that could also be otherwise, without it being all possible."
The České Budějovice project, with its encoded title l===l, is a representative discourse on Knapp's work. The viewer finds themselves in an environment derived from the actual name/brand/exhibition, which the author characterizes as a synonym for black and white space, where attributes and shapes can be perceived and compared, light and shadow, where the analogy with the digital world intersects, as well as construction with deconstruction. Thus, all significant moments of Knapp's creativity. Artificial spaces offering unknown aesthetic information in a real environment.
Manuel Knapp was born in 1978 in Koruntany. He currently lives alternately in Austria and Japan. He studied painting and graphics at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts and also studied music composition and electroacoustic media in Vienna. He has an extensive background with numerous solo and group exhibitions and projects in Europe, America, and Asia. He is also very active in the music scene, where he has completed a significant number of projects and noise performances. In addition, he presents his computer-animated experimental films at international film and music festivals.
The exhibition will last until February 9, 2014
Gallery of Contemporary Art and Architecture – House of Art of the City of České Budějovice
Curator DU: Michal Škoda
A fundamental theme in the work of Manuel Knapp is space and perception. This is an issue that is not uncommon in contemporary art; however, the way the author works can certainly be regarded as quite unique – personal.
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Knapp engages in both "classical" painting and spatial installations, mural painting, graphics, video, and to a large extent, computer animation. In a remarkable way, he combines classical media/object, painting/with the world of technology/electronics/.
In both painting and animation, he works with the overlapping of images, graphic forms, and media planes in the foreground and background, thus creating image surfaces with a high visual experience that do not serve as a referential link to three-dimensional space. He creates his own spatiality of pure visuality. Knapp is very interested in the limits of visibility, where it can be said that central roles are played by moments like "just about" and "almost already".
However, an unmistakable issue in his works is also the questions relating to the construction and deconstruction of space through shadow – shadow as space. Knapp's very sensitive perception and personal ideas about the influence and work with space confronts with the world of computers, and through programming, he creates various scenes that are then integrated into the given space during projections. This allows him to disrupt three-dimensionality and create an imaginary space that operates with instability and transience, constructed and simultaneously deconstructed by a continuous change of ever-new/animation/definitions of its components.
In the paintings of Manuel Knapp, constructive tendencies can also be found, as well as references to Cartesian coordinate space. Simple geometric forms and lines form a considerably reduced vocabulary of shapes and colors for the artist. Own lines become less properties of existing things in terms of contour, but rather a creation of divisions. Last but not least, it is also necessary to mention the presence of "sound," where Knapp works on the threshold between information and disinformation/noise/.
How we move in the spaces of Manuel Knapp's exhibition, the variability of our stance, the temporal sequence of experiences and perceptions plays a central role in communicating with his work. The own movement limits, from which time point something becomes information about color, and from when it is decoded as information that it concerns shadow. The change in the viewer's stance is thus very important, uncovering the lability of perception and one's own "images" becoming a deregulating aesthetic transformer, offering structured diversity. David Komary beautifully explains this in one of his texts as "the seen appears as something that could also be otherwise, without it being all possible."
The České Budějovice project, with its encoded title l===l, is a representative discourse on Knapp's work. The viewer finds themselves in an environment derived from the actual name/brand/exhibition, which the author characterizes as a synonym for black and white space, where attributes and shapes can be perceived and compared, light and shadow, where the analogy with the digital world intersects, as well as construction with deconstruction. Thus, all significant moments of Knapp's creativity. Artificial spaces offering unknown aesthetic information in a real environment.
Manuel Knapp was born in 1978 in Koruntany. He currently lives alternately in Austria and Japan. He studied painting and graphics at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts and also studied music composition and electroacoustic media in Vienna. He has an extensive background with numerous solo and group exhibitions and projects in Europe, America, and Asia. He is also very active in the music scene, where he has completed a significant number of projects and noise performances. In addition, he presents his computer-animated experimental films at international film and music festivals.
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