Training / Am Zug
TRAINING / AM ZUG
A series of drawings depicting „minutes of in-between-ness“ – fleeting moments of fragmentary memory when travelling by train. The state of moving fast through the landscape triggers constantly the imagination. The continuous (and impossible) attempt to draw and get hold of some details of situations or objects flashing by – that which is seen but gone already.
The changing velocity and the permanent micro movements, the wiggle and waggle of the cars or almost falling asleep while drawing have an effect also on the scribbling and unfinished character of the drawings.
In the installation several of Nikolaus Gansterer’s sketchbooks from his on-going work „Am Zug / Training“ are displayed in a vitrine and made accessible via a video flipping page by page through the books. During the last years the artist filled innumerable books with drawings showing his visual impressions of his extensive train journeys.
In 2015 Gansterer traveled via public transportation from Vienna to Tokyo. He meticulously notated all the different stages of his trip which lasted several weeks.
Year: ongoing project since 2002
Technique: pencil & fineliner on paper
Exhibited at:
– 2018: Con-notations, Nikolaus Gansterer, Villa Arson, Nice, France
– 2012: Nicht nur ein Bild, sondern eine ganze Welt, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna, Austria.
– 2011: Lonely at the Top, Graphology#4, (curated by Edwin Carels), Muhka, Antwerp, Belgium.
Reviews:
– „Wachsender Widerstand im Kunstraum“, Christoph Habres, in: Wiener Zeitung, p.14, 11.02.2012.
– Interview with curator Julia Klaering at artycok.tv, published: 25.2.2012, (03:20 min).
– Freiheitsgrade eines künstlerischen Mediums, Margareta Sandhofer, in: artmagazine, 08.02.2012.
– Ein Bleistift geht auf Reisen, Mathias Dusini, in: Falter 10/12, Lexikon/Kunst, p.31, 07.03.2012.
– „Bildfundus Comicuniversum“, Nicht nur ein Bild, sondern eine ganze Welt, Franz Thalmair, in: Kunstforum, Bd.215, 2012.
– Nicht nur ein Bild, sondern eine ganz Welt, in: KulturOnline, 09.03.2012.
– Superman im Widerstand, Reinhold Schachner, in: Augustin, 313, p. 29, 26. 01.2012.
– Die performative Erforschung der Zeichnung, Michael-Franz Woels, in: SKUG-magazine, 06.01.2012.
– Nicht nur ein Bild, in: inwien-magazin, p. 42, 01.03.2012.
– Not just a picture, but a whole world, feature film about the exhibition, at: artycok.tv
– Nicht nur ein Bild, sondern eine ganze Welt, TV feature, in: ORF 2 – Aviso 2012.
Published in:
– „Nicht nur ein Bild, sondern eine ganze Welt / Not just an image but a whole world“, Christiane Krejs (Ed.) catalogue, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna, 2012. ISBN: 978-3-9522934-6-3
– „Con-notations: Nikolaus Gansterer“, Nikolaus Gansterer, Sophie Orlando, Katrin Stroebel, (eds.), Cat. Exhib., Edition Villa Arson, Nice, 2018. ISBN 978-2-913689-39-8 (download of the pdf of the publication: HERE!)