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24/11/2011

Osvaldo Budet / Stephanie Guse / Rosi Steinbach

Filipp Rosbach Galerie, Leipzig

Osvaldo Budet: Wareneingang

Osvaldo Budet works in various disciplines of art in parallel. He paints and also works with documentary film and photography, with the result that his painting is suffused with a cinematic aesthetic. Because he works with metallic pigments that give the surface of the picture a sheen, his painting moves between photography and the painterly and as far as the flickering aesthetic of cinema. In the film »Wareneingang«, the artist takes on the identity of the protagonist, becoming Johannes, an employee of the Kirow Works in Leipzig, a leading manufacturer of heavy-duty cranes. »Kirow«, his new series of pictures, was created kaleidoscopically with various media. At the beginning, the storyboard turns the inconspicuous worker into a hero of nuts and bolts, then makes way for a fascinating, fictional documentary film in which a neutrally toned female voice speaks about the working day of this human automat. The staged routine, the characteristic work clothes, and especially the relationship between human and machine make this peculiar worker the heir of a mighty icon of classic cinema: Charlie Chaplin in »Modern Times«.

Osvaldo Budet, born in 1979 in Puerto Rico, lives and works in Berlin. Bachelor of Arts from the Escuela de Artes Plastica de Puerto Rico in 2004. Master of Fine Arts from Maryland Institute College of Art in 2008, Baltimore, USA. Exhibitions in Puerto Rico, England, Germany, and the USA.

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Stephanie Guse: Willhaben: Adele

»Willhaben« and »Must-Haves« are the titles of Stephanie Guse’s photographic pieces, and they reveal the motivation of her work: desire. But since this is directed at our culture’s Old Masters’ paintings, making possession unaffordable for most, she offers her own art as a kind of substitute for consumption. Stephanie Guse interprets artifacts anew and stages herself and others together with objects that she produces from the stock of her extensive »trash archive«. The results are visual works that, at first glance, can be taken for famous portraits of women, like those of the painter Gustav Klimt [»Adele Bloch-Bauer, 1907« and »Emilie Flöge, 1902«]. But on second glance, the mosaic-like garments of the ladies turn out to be an agglomeration of golden-colored praline and bonbon wrappers and newspaper clippings. Stephanie Guse is a subversively acting conveyer of realities: pathos meets trash, the lie becomes truth, and garbage becomes a luxury item.

Stephanie Guse, born in 1971 in Bielefeld, has lived and worked in Vienna since 2005. She studied from 1998–2001 at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Frankfurt am Main [Städelschule], at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, and at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig. She received an Erasmus Fellowship and a Stipend of the Federal State of Lower Saxony and has received support from the Bavarian State Ministry for Science, Research, and Art and from the city of Vienna.

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Rosi Steinbach: Agamemnon


In Greek mythology, Agamemnon was the King of Mycenae and the leader of the Hellenes in the Trojan War. He was later stabbed to death by his wife and her lover. In a grave excavated in Mycenae, Heinrich Schliemann found two skeletons with golden masks. He attributed the more splendidly equipped skeleton to Agamemnon. It was later determined that the mask dates back to a time much earlier than the Trojan War, but the mask is still known as »the gold mask of Agamemnon«.

Rosi Steinbach calls her new work group of five masks »Agamemnon«. The starting points for these masks are masks of the Inuit and the Ticuna, an Indio people living in the upper Amazon region [Grassi Ethnological Museum], from Star Wars and the Occupy Movement, and Perchten, Habergeiß, and Krampus masks from the Alps. The use and meaning of masks have changed in the course of time. The artist covers the masks with gold, giving them a new value.

Rosi Steinbach, born in Karl–Marx–Stadt/Chemnitz, lives and works in Leipzig. From 1977 on she studied at the engineering college in Köthen. In 1981, she earned her diploma in industrial plant engineering. She has worked as a ceramicist since 1990 and has taken part in exhibitions since 1996. She is the winner of the 18th Leipzig Annual Exhibition.

Opening: Friday, 25 November, 7pm

Filipp Rosbach Galerie
Spinnereistrasse 7, Halle 20 - Leipzig

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