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Kay Walkowiak, Island

Kay Walkowiak, Island

2016, film still
Kay Walkowiak, Island

Kay Walkowiak, Island

2016, film still
Kay Walkowiak, A Different Order

Kay Walkowiak, A Different Order

2016, pigment print
Kay Walkowiak, Island

Kay Walkowiak, Island

2016, film still
Kay Walkowiak, Island

Kay Walkowiak, Island

2016, film still
Exhibition View

Exhibition View

Kay Walkowiak, Island

Kay Walkowiak, Island

2016, film still
Kay Walkowiak, Island

Kay Walkowiak, Island

2016, film still
Kay Walkowiak, Island

Kay Walkowiak, Island

2016, film still
APPLIED ARTS. NOW

Kay Walkowiak. Forms in Time

Wed, 20.04.2016–Sun, 02.10.2016
MAK GALLERY

Kay Walkowiak. Forms in TimeKay Walkowiak. Forms in Time20.04.2016 00:00
MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art
ExhibitionAPPLIED ARTS. NOW

Kay Walkowiak. Forms in Time

Wed, 20.04.2016–Sun, 02.10.2016

MAK GALLERY

In his Forms in Time solo exhibition developed for the MAK, the artist Kay Walkowiak approaches the question of the timelessness and narrative conceivability of form on the basis of the differing culturehistorical mentalities of East and West. “The traveler leaves no trace because he keeps pace with the movement of things,” is the comment of the philosopher Byung-Chul Han on an old Chinese saying, and thereby refers to a Far Eastern tradition of the relationship with form that, in contrast with the Western form, primarily conceived of as substance, is oriented to real absence. In an eclectic compilation of new works, Walkowiak sounds out the historically and socio-culturally characterized approach to form and questions its functional positing as a projection surface for timeless utopias.

The traveler abides for a moment between being and becoming. Form loses its substance and, through its emptiness, space expands. This closes the circle around the title of the exhibition, Forms in Time: everything hangs in the balance between concrete reality and absolute utopia.

A cooperation between the MAK and the University of Applied Arts Vienna

Curator: Marlies Wirth, MAK Curator

Artist Talk

with Marlies Wirth, exhibition curator
Tue, 3 May 2016, 6 p.m.

Artist's Talk and Book Presentation

ARTIST'S TALK
Kay Walkowiak in conversation with Marlies Wirth, Curator, MAK, in the context of the viennacontemporary 2016
Sat, 24 Sept 2016, 4 p.m.

Followed by
BOOK PRESENTATION
Kay Walkowiak. Forms in Time

MAK Columned Main Hall

In his Forms in Time solo exhibition developed for the MAK, the artist Kay Walkowiak addresses the question of the timelessness and narrative conceivability of form on the basis of the differing culture-historical mentalities of the “East” and the “West.” “The traveler therefore leaves no trace behind, because he keeps pace with the movement 0f things,” the philosopher Byung-Chul Han comments on an old Chinese saying, and in so doing makes reference to a Far Eastern tradition regarding the relationship with form, which, in contrast with the Western form, primarily conceived of as substance, is oriented to the real, absent person. In a complex compilation of new works, Walkowiak explores the historically and socioculturally defined handling of form and questions its functional positing as a projection surface for timeless utopias.
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Publication
Edited by Kay Walkowiak, with contributions by Arno Böhler, Sabine Folie, Marlies Wirth and Daniela Zyman, Verlag für moderne Kunst 2016; 232 pages, 141 color illustrations, 17 BW illustrations, € 32


The exhibition series APPLIED ARTS. NOW aims at creating a platform for contemporary forms of applied arts, and thus providing greater visibility for especially interesting positions of graduates of the University of Applied Arts Vienna living and working in Austria.
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Previous exhibitions:

Alfredo Barsuglia. Cabinet
4 Mar – 10 May 2015
Valentin Ruhry. Grand Central
8 Oct 2014 – 8 Feb 2015
soma Architecture
13 May – 14 Sept 2014
LISA TRUTTMANN. My Stage is Your Domain
19 Jun – 6 Oct 2013
Marco Dessí. STILL LIFE
30 Jan – 5 May 2013
taliaYsebastian. The Committee of Sleep
3 Oct 2012 – 6 Jan 2013
STIEFEL & COMPANY ARCHITECTS
23 May – 16 Sep 2012
PATRICK RAMPELOTTO. Adventures in Foam
25 Jan – 6 May 2012

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