Franz Ehmann
Words that changed the world and influenced the weather
2013
Newspapers, colour, packing tape, bicycle
Thematically this Installation is headed by luxury and ephemerality and highlights inherent ideological distinctions of having too much and having not much at all.
As a counter argument it tries to dissolve the tyranny of choice between luxury and ephemerality, though whose world is not ruptured by the “big decisions”.
By many ways, global and local, communication through the optics of art defines a pleasure principal precisely derived from luxury as ephemerality and ephemerality as luxury.
A gesture of grace can open the debate and render any one of these dichotomies as essential elements to further art for the 21st century.
For better or worse, we all live in a specific bubble of communication foam, where language itself looses its currency and enters the territory of burned out meaning.
Fotos oben: Susanne Hesping
News Sculpture
2013
Performance and newspaper
*1963, lebt und arbeitet in Brisbane, Australien
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Australia Council fort he Arts
Published – Speaking the world into existence
Australia Council fort he Arts
Published - Heterostrophic
Published – Open Panorama
Arts Queensland Grant
Published – Soapbox – Installation practices and artists
Published – The blue room of humanity
Selected exhibitions
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Biennale der Künstler, Haus der Kunst, München, Germany
Words that changed the world and influenced the weather, FOE 156, Munich, Germany and
SGAR, Brisbane, Australia
There where you are not, Factory49, Sydney, Australia
Songs that changed the world and influenced the weather, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, S.A.
Fourteen, Factory49, Sydney
Cheap philosophies, Schwartz Gallery, London, UK
Yes we can, Lisi Hämmerle Galerie, Bregenz, Austria
Vienna Biennale, Vienna, Austria
Relentless (without beginning nor end), BBK Galerie, Augsburg, Germany
Maximum acceleration, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Aftermath, Artspace Sydney, artist residency and exhibition, Sydney
Maximum acceleration, Ryan Renshaw Gallery, Brisbane
ARC Biennial, Queensland University Technology Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia
Questioning the questions of this world, Ryan Renshaw Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Questioning the questions of this world, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
Speaking the world into existence, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
Speaking the world into existence, Artspace Mackay, Mackay Qld, Australia