Florian Roithmayr SERVICE
Hammond, Chris and Roithmayr, Florian. 2015. Florian Roithmayr SERVICE. In: "Florian Roithmayr SERVICE", Mot International Brussels, Belgium, 17 January 2015 – 7 March 2015. [Show/Exhibition]
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Show/Exhibition |
Creators: | Hammond, Chris and Roithmayr, Florian |
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Abstract or Description: | MOTINTERNATIONAL Brussels is delighted to announce the first solo exhibition of Florian Roithmayr in Belgium. The past few years have seen Roithmayr’s practice informed by long periods spent as apprentice in concrete restoration, in car alteration industries or on excavation sites in the Sudanese desert. For this exhibition of new works, Roithmayr draws on these secluded and intimate engagements. SERVICE focuses on the shifting materiality that facilitates and registers actions and solutions to perform the transfer of assistance or the delivery of repair and upkeep, and their combined transitive potential for art. These are slowed down forms of production; they often require intense attention and commitment without any definite aims. materials, they waver between the humble or minimal intervention that positions sculpture as temporary and fugitive. Resigned to act and generate rather than understand, the protagonist in Robert Walser’s novel The Assistant wonders, “What is it that I’m accomplishing? What services have I provided to date? I’m firmly convinced that my lord and master hasn’t yet derived much benefit from me. Could I be lacking initiative, enthusiasm, flair?”. The assistant isn’t accomplishing anything, he knows little of what he is assisting with, he is not aware of the services he is rendering. His dilemma reveals what seems like withdrawal, inactivity or speechlessness to be either an escalation of commitment or the motivation for emancipation. It’s as if by suspending comprehension and benefits, SERVICE becomes the implausible support to register the fleeting nature of transmission and exchange |
Official URL: | http://web.archive.org/web/20150522081718/http://w... |
Departments, Centres and Research Units: | Art |
Date range: | 17 January 2015 – 7 March 2015 |
Event Location: | Mot International Brussels, Belgium |
Item ID: | 21464 |
Date Deposited: | 29 Sep 2017 15:46 |
Last Modified: | 29 Sep 2017 15:46 |
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