Moving Axis
Jakob Maria Buchner
lives and works in Vienna. His series “moving axis”, conceived as a conceptual study, inspired me to a significant entrepreneurial and personal relaunch. When axes shift, the context shifts and a new world emerges. It is simply amazing.
I asked the artist:
What fascinates you about axes?
Axes are like lines – breaking lines and therefore close to drawing, “disegno” delimits the areas, unlike the “sfumato” that makes them run into each other (drawing-painting). For me, “moving axis” is a working term with which I explore the multidimensionality of pictorial ways of thinking in drawing. Drawing for me is more close to thinking – the axes here refer more in a conceptual direction.
What happens when they move?
Especially in this series, the experimental character or the laboratory situation/artificiality is significant to me. The drawings in this series are very similar (especially in terms of composition), and at the same time they have differences. I see the movement in rethinking something very similar again and again, always looking for new upheavals in the picture. A process of drawing and thinking.
What does this do to the viewer?
I see pictures/works of art as offers to the viewer. They invite you to take with you and think further about what you see and feel.
Jakob Maria Buchner (*1987 in Hallein). His practice is mainly painting. His works have been exhibited by various institutions such as Galerie der Stadt Schwaz (A), Kirchgasse Gallery (CH) and Heiligenkreuzerhof Vienna (A). Artist-in-residences in Paris, Berlin and Budapest.
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