Hofstetter Kurt - Ich schaue in den
Himmel um mich zu erden / I look up to the sky
to ground myself
Art Publication, 2021, Philipp Konzett (Ed.),
VfmK Verlag für moderne Kunst, Vienna 2021
"… a massive and intriguing monograph exploring
of the work of the Vienna-based media art
pioneer Hofstetter Kurt. Part theoretical
examination, part poetic exploration, it is
dense, lyrical, and provocative."
Leonardo Rezension von Azby Brown, Oktober 2021
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Hofstetter
Kurt
X-tense
image: X_lips,
2003/2009
Computer
installation
Hofstetter
Kurt's piece
of Ambient
Media Art
shows the
irrational
simultaneity
of dawn and
dusk, brought
to life by an
enstatic flow
through a
static pair of
lips. Only
after some
time can the
essential
change in the
X-tense image
be
experienced.
The sky
streams of
dawn and dusk
come from
twelve video
cameras – the
Sunpendulum
Time-Eyes,
which are
positioned
around the
earth along
the Tropic of
Cancer.
Hofstetter
Kurt
X-stills,
2023
prints on
canvas, stills
from different
X-tense images
at a certain
point in time
The
sky streams of
dawn and dusk
at a certain
point in time
enter into
astonishing
connections
with the
respective
motif and
modulate
spatial
illusions full
of immaterial
pictorial
sensitivity.
Then again,
lines dissolve
in the sfumato
of misty haze
or envelop
lyrically.
They provide
glimpses into
the past –
varying
depictions of
condensed time
intertwined
with the
sensuality of
a lip – visual
tactility.
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