29.LEONIDOU 25 28.GIATRAKOU 10 27.IERA ODOS 28 26.DANIHL PROFITOU 18 25.SALAMINOS 72 24.PARAMITHIAS 6 20.IASONOS 45 21.IASONOS 47 22.PERDIKA 8 23.GIATRAKOU 28 12.KERAMEIKOU 28 13.KOLONOU 29 14.LEONIDOU 11 16.DELIGIORGI 43 19.IASONOS 26 18.LEONIDOU 26 15.LEONIDOU 9 17.LEONIDOU 15 11.KERAMEIKOU 32 10.KERAMEIKOU 43 09.KERAMEIKOU 51 08.AGISILAOU 92 07.KERAMEIKOU 73 06.THERMOPYLON 23 05.THERMOPYLON 27 04.LEONIDOU & MYLLEROU 03.LEONIDOU 38 02.LEONIDOU 36 01.GIATRAKOU 2, INFO POINT
Untitled, 2009, MDF, paint, 2 parts

Untitled, 2009, MDF, paint, 2 parts

Untitled, 2009, MDF, paint, 2 parts

Untitled, 2009, MDF, paint, 2 parts

Untitled, 2009, MDF, paint, 3 parts

Untitled, 2009, MDF, paint, 3 parts

Untitled, 2009, MDF, paint, 2 parts

Untitled, 2009, MDF, paint, 2 parts

Untitled, 2009, MDF, paint

Untitled, 2009, MDF, paint

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ARTISTS
Gerwald Rockenschaub
ReMap3 ADDRESS
26 Leonidou
CONTACT

b.alfers@presenhuber.com
+41 43 4447056

PERMANENT ADDRESS
Galerie Eva Presenhuber AG, Zahnradstrasse 21, 8005 Zürich

Galerie Eva Presenhuber
Gerwald Rockenschaub - If I knew I’d tell you

Gerwald Rockenschaub’s early works can be attributed to ‘neo-geo’ (‘new geometry’) painting, an art genre emerging in the 1980s that derives abstract form-finding from today’s environment and society, while referring to the abstract-geometric styles of 20th century art. Although Gerwald Rockenschaub has gradually turned away from the discipline of painting, his later installations and sculptures are based on similar ideas. In this context, his room installations are to be understood as minimalist objects on the one hand; on the other hand, they point to the exhibition conditions of contemporary art within the so-called ‘white cube’.

In the late eighties, Gerwald Rockenschaub introduced a radical paradigm shift by drafting his objects on the computer and having them produced by specialized firms. With its tendency towards industrial design development procedures, the artist’s working method reveals a fundamentally interdisciplinary character. This is also expressed by his interest in electronic music, for instance. Working as a sculptor, graphic artist, and disc jockey, he thus left his mark on the aesthetics of the nineties – combining pop music with minimal, conceptual and contextual art.

Gerwald Rockenschaub’s work incorporates space as an additional parameter: By placing his objects inside a room, he creates walkable sculptures. Every show starts with a thorough exploration and analysis of the exhibition premises, which then allows the artist, by means of – highly precise and concise – manipulation, to comment on them and offer new ways of experiencing them. It is often not clear whether to define the objects as elements of architecture, ready-mades, or autonomous sculptures in a traditional sense. All works may have a smooth structure and a seemingly cool surface, but thanks to their vivid coloration, they possess a sensual quality. Since Gerwald Rockenschaub conceives his works specifically in relation to a given exhibition space, every individual piece of art is linked to that space. The meaningful arrangement of these geometric works generates an area of tension that modifies the perception of both space and the works presented within. Rockenschaub aims to use his installations as some kind of generator for perception, playing on the viewer’s attitude of expectation and visual experience and stimulating his reason. “I endeavor to balance my way – to put it somewhat boldly – across the abyss that separates pure sensuality from pure intellect”, explains the artist.

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