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Founded in 2021, Parkside Gallery is a private art project space in cooperation with
Galerie Edition Stalzer (Vienna, Austria) and forum limbach (Limbach, Austria).
"Everyday life needs its opposite" - in this sense Parkside Gallery wants to give artists the opportunity to present their ideas and visitors the possibility to dive into their imaginary world and to be inspired by new perspectives - or as Picasso once said: "Art washes the dust of everyday life from the soul".
Gegründet 2021, ist Parkside Gallery ein privater Kunstprojektraum in Kooperation mit
Galerie Edition Stalzer (Wien, Österreich) und forum limbach (Limbach, Österreich).
"Der Alltag braucht sein Gegenteil" - in diesem Sinn will Parkside Gallery Künstler:innen die Möglichkeit geben, ihre Ideen zu präsentieren und den Besucher:innen die Möglichkeit, in deren
Vorstellungswelt einzutauchen und sich durch neue Sichtweisen inspirieren zu lassen - oder wie Picasso einst sagte: "Kunst wäscht den Staub des Alltags von der Seele".
Parkside Gallery, Schadekgasse 5 / Top 9, 1060 Vienna, Austria
Exhibitions
SIGNS AND MEANING
Michael Endlicher, Harald Woschitz,
Parkside Gallery
March 16 - May 12, 2023
Change of meaning as a continuum of perception
In the exhibition Signs and Meaning two complementary concepts meet: language-pictures by Michael Endlicher and the picture-language by Harald Woschitz. The two undertake the attempt to uncover something new, unfamiliar and yet common from the confrontation of the opposites.
With the term language image or figurative figure we commonly associate sense-expanding, meaning-varying expressions or idioms. By opening our perception associatively through recourse to the
unconscious, to experiences and their emotional embedding in memory, the linguistic image enables us to expand the original context of meaning. It promotes a change of meaning, which in the best case
turns out to be a gain of meaning by way of a re-evaluation.
Endlicher works not only with the evocative power of linguistic images, but also - in his drama sheets - with "narratives" of one-word sentences that emerge alphanumerically, that is, through a random process. Nevertheless - or precisely because of this? - these depict the real dramas of life, existence, the cosmos, domination, etc. In the head sheets this principle collides with partly representational, partly abstract "Antlitzen", i.e. real pictures. Could we speak of an extended principle of the pictorial figure? After all, this is supposed to cause an increase in the processing speed of information and thus an expansion of our perceptual possibilities by simultaneously activating several areas of the human brain. But Endlicher often leaves us in the dark as to whether his signs are released from the convention of their meaning or are committed to their original content. The pictorial figure here is probably in the eye of the beholder - and Endlicher's figures of speech and signs, despite all theory, often remain in the closed, mysterious, like a pictorial riddle.
The viewer makes a similar – and yet different – experience with the visual language of the photo works by Harald Woschitz shown here. It, too, remains at first in the unknown. While Michael Endlicher starts from the written sign as the smallest unit of meaning in order to dare to reconstruct the “entire” reality from this nucleus, with Harald Woschitz the situation is exactly the opposite. Starting from the image of what is completed, often already in the past, the photographic works deconstruct everyday reality from the other side, so to speak. The supposedly real, the materially determined slides through formal alienation into an open context of meaning that has to be newly formulated, which points to the depth of the picture and its individual parts. Woschitz scours his environment for meaningful images; however, these are often relativized in the form of blurring, in ultimately abstract excerpts and in variations of what is superficially the same. Rarely is the individual photo a solitary bearer of meaning - only in the context of variants, variations and multiple attempts it can reasonably dare to trace the innermost reality.
At the interface, at the interaction of image-language and language-image in this exhibition, something new and unfamiliar is to be revealed in ourselves. Following Marcel Proust: "In reality, the viewer, when he looks, is a viewer of himself, to whom the work is handed by the authors as a kind of "optical instrument", so that he may recognize what he might not otherwise have been able to see in himself."
Michael Endlicher, Harald Woschitz, 2023
«Intimate Moment»
Harald Woschitz
November 16, 2022–January 20, 2023
Opening Reception: Wednesday, November 16 and Friday, November 18, 5-8pm
In addition, we ask for advance notice at
+43 676 750 1121 / parksidegallery@haraldwoschitz.com
In times of change - an intimate moment of pause.
The 30-part photographic work "Intimate moment of a new beginning at the end of the old order" by Harald Woschitz takes its starting point in a stormy night of the year 2021. Using the example of the
effects on the mighty hedge in the garden of a Viennese Gründerzeit house, viewers are invited to reflect on two conditions that could not be more different and at the same time condition each other:
Moments of silence as a result of an abrupt change and a first inkling of the new in upheaval - signs of persistence in change.
Within the framework of the festival SICHTweisen, which is taking place in
Vienna for the first time this year and which
focuses on the new experience of music together with other art forms, we are very pleased to be able to invite you to
two special concert evenings: On Thursday, November 17, and on Friday, November 25, at 6:30pm, two inspiring musicians (Esther-Rebecca
Neumann/violin, Allesandro Traina/guitar) will enter into a photo-musical dialogue with the exhibited group
of works by photographer Harald Woschitz under the title "Music Meets Photography".
In the form of photo-musical narration, the musicians will undertake with unique pieces of early music and premieres of
contemporary music to "bring to life", as it were as a bridge, the memory underlying the photographic image - as a
fragmentary definition in time
- by setting in motion an inner dialogue: the expansion of frozen time, into a very personal, individual space
of possibilities of sensing.
Concert tickets are available through Ö1-Ticket,
directly at https://festival-sichtweisen.com, or at the box office.
Harald Woschitz, 1965, lives as a photographer in Vienna and Zurich
«Coast to Coast»
Brendan Kronheim, Harald Woschitz
July 7-August 23, 2022
Soft-Opening: July 6-8, 5pm-9pm
Please pre-register at +43 676 750 1121 or
parksidegallery@haraldwoschitz.com
The exhibition "Coast to Coast" with the media photography and painting invites you to an associative journey along
Euro-American trade and migration routes.
The port cities of Antwerp, Rotterdam, Hoboken New Jersey and San Francisco form the cornerstones of this
artisticpictorial expedition. Port cities as cultural clusters in their own right (“Cities are stronger than nations”, Richard
Sennett) in the field of tension between the history of discovery of the United
States and the transatlantic interactions
with Western Europe, the historical starting point of this journey.
Based on a topographical mosaic of film-influenced subjects, various inter-sections and reference axes emerge that invite you to trace learned ways of seeing and coding.
How is cultural self-understanding constituted with geographical distance?
It is questions like these that arise along this associative journey by Kronheim and Woschitz against the background of European roots and today‘somnipresent American way of life.
Harald Woschitz, 1965, lives as a photographer in Vienna and Zurich
Brendan Kronheim, 1970, lives as a painter in Vienna
The "Photographic Essays" are narratives in two senses: the photography itself, as a "narrative type ", and the separate, independent type of the essay about photography. Both the
photograph and the text reflect the authors' personal examination of a section of a personal reality.
The text that accompanies the picture, a subjective offer of interpretation or picture analysis, is an invitation to the viewer to follow with relish the traces that have been laid and wants to
encourage them to open up their own personal universe of perception. In this sense, the essay offered naturally represents one of many possible interpretations.
The works shown are part of a project by Harald Woschitz (photography) and Andreas Stalzer (essay) that has been running since 2020 – two artists and researchers who meet in a
"laboratory" to discover something new with a methodically designed experimental arrangement.
Starting with the photo, as a catalyst, an attempt is made here to critically examine contemporary the time-given way of perception. The challenge presented to the viewer, and the responsibility
imposed onto them, is to perceive the photograph, a past lifted into timelessness, as an offer to understand their personal, now conceivable present, history and future as something changeable. In
this context, the essay is just such a subjective catalyst, designed to enable the individual to open the door to their personal space of time and opportunities.
The "Photographic Essays" on display are not a conventional exhibition situation, where image and image description accompany each other as a functional pairing. They are rather the result of a
shared narrative of an antithesis to the assertion of an objectively perceptible time. Just as traditional fairy tales adapt and change from generation to generation, the supposed reality here is
also changeable and thus subject to our own prerogative of interpretation.
The selected form of presentation, namely the reduction to just two pairs of image and text, refers to two open pages of a book, combined with the invitation to start a very personal, inner dialogue with the “experiences” here.
The works from the "Photographic Essays", shown here for the first time, will be part of a book that documents the results of the ongoing "investigations". A bound form of independent perceptions in time.
Harald Woschitz, 1965, lives as a photographer in Vienna and Zurich
Andreas Stalzer, 1960, lives as an art mediator and curator in Vienna and Limbach (Bgld.)