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parksidegallery@haraldwoschitz.com

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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