Constantin Luser - mind mapping
27 January – 24 March 2006
Austrian Cultural Forum London
Constantin Luser’s work is characterised by a complex relationship between analog and digital. His drawings resemble computer generated images and trembling seismographic graphs, or some sort of abstract information output, yet signifying nothing in particular. Always meticulously drawn by hand onto the hard surface of any wall, Luser takes over these vertical planes and inscribes them with intimate lines, creating mindmaps which follow a flow of free associations.
Luser will have been in residence at the Austrian Cultural Forum London throughout January to create a drawing installation, which, stretching into three dimensional space, strings visual association between different records of thought, and interweaves words and images. Some details are emphasized by seperate sketches which zoom into these non-referential diagrams, and enlarge fragments of the whole. But essentially it is through this working process that Luser investigates the interrelationality of sign and object, resting somewhere between pure thought and sheer reality, signifier and materiality. His training in industrial design, before attending art college in Vienna, informs his work with the process of materializing an idea from sketches, to models, to final object.
Constantin Luser was born in Graz, 1976, and lives and works in Vienna. He has recently shown at the Moscow Biennial, Art Unlimited Basel and the Christine König Galerie, Vienna, and is considered one of the most renowned Austrian artists of his generation. Although he has exhibited throughout Europe, this will be his first exhibition in Britain.
The Visual Art Platform at the Austrian Cultural Forum presents and promotes emerging artistic practices at the Forum’s Gallery. It is curated by Eva Martischnig and Adriana Marques, who are based in Graz (Austria) and London respectively. This curatorial programme aims at exploring local, regional and global contexts of contemporary art by generating new links between Austria and the UK through exhibitions, residencies and artist’s talks. The Visual Art Platform is hosted by the Austrian Cultural Forum London, which facilitates exchange between Austria and the UK in the creative fields of music, visual arts, performing arts, as well as in various academic fields.
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