Barbara Sturm
Der Bug/The Bug
Installation Views
Installation view: Barbara Sturm at Galerie Gilla Loercher 2012
Photo: Dieter Düvelmeyer, coutesy Galerie Gilla Loercher
Installation view: Barbara Sturm at Galerie Gilla Loercher 2012
Photo: Dieter Düvelmeyer, coutesy Galerie Gilla Loercher
Installation view: Barbara Sturm at Galerie Gilla Loercher 2012
Photo: Dieter Düvelmeyer, coutesy Galerie Gilla Loercher
Installation view: Barbara Sturm at Galerie Gilla Loercher 2012
Photo: Dieter Düvelmeyer, coutesy Galerie Gilla Loercher
Press Release
/Galerie Gilla Loercher is very pleased to present the solo show of Austrian artist Barbara Sturm.
The catalogue, „Der Bug/The Bug“ accompanies the exhibition. With a text by art historian Dr. Friedrich Weltzien. Editor: Galerie Gilla Loercher, 2012
Art historian Friedrich Weltzien wrote about this exhibition:
"The artist Barbara Sturm plays with ambiguities, with ambiguities, with the multiplication of references and references. Her works question traditional definitions of originality and virtuosity as criteria for evaluating works of art. Or better said: you move the objects to which such standards could be applied. (…)
The drawings in the “Famous Male Colleagues” series, with which Barbara Sturm simultaneously honors and caricatures the work of other contemporary artists such as Wim Delvoye, Santiago Sierra or Franz West, make this journey of images through people's heads comprehensible. The strongly autobiographical moments that can be found in Sturm's work, in which memory is transformed into art; the series “corrections”, which depicts distorted views in Photoshop and tries in vain to rectify the scanned drawing with the same computer program - all these approaches show images that were created in the act of translation: found in translation."
The catalogue, „Der Bug/The Bug“ accompanies the exhibition. With a text by art historian Dr. Friedrich Weltzien. Editor: Galerie Gilla Loercher, 2012
Art historian Friedrich Weltzien wrote about this exhibition:
"The artist Barbara Sturm plays with ambiguities, with ambiguities, with the multiplication of references and references. Her works question traditional definitions of originality and virtuosity as criteria for evaluating works of art. Or better said: you move the objects to which such standards could be applied. (…)
The drawings in the “Famous Male Colleagues” series, with which Barbara Sturm simultaneously honors and caricatures the work of other contemporary artists such as Wim Delvoye, Santiago Sierra or Franz West, make this journey of images through people's heads comprehensible. The strongly autobiographical moments that can be found in Sturm's work, in which memory is transformed into art; the series “corrections”, which depicts distorted views in Photoshop and tries in vain to rectify the scanned drawing with the same computer program - all these approaches show images that were created in the act of translation: found in translation."
