exhibited:

18.09.-18.10.2024 MICHAEL KIENZER, Melted into the Surroundings, curated by Lóránd Hegyi and Davide di Maggio, Fondazione Mudima Milano, IT



publiziert/published:

Michael Kienzer, Some Works 09/2024, ed. Fondazione Mudima Milan, Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Innsbruck/Vienna, Milan 2024, ISBN 978-88-99925-56-7, S. 50.



The sculpture Lose Dichte Vol. 11 from 2016 (p. 132), which is held upright by the power of just two magnets, appears to totally rise above its surroundings: a narrow, grooved steel rod rises vertically on a short fragment of railway track and proudly balances horizontally on top of a delicate, smaller steel rod. Defying its constructive fragility, the sculpture rests securely in its self-sufficient appearance and carries its purist aesthetic in still self-centred-ness before it.

Some murals are even reduced to steel cables, whose expansive loops are concentrically bundled around a few magnets, so that these drawings, which have become sculptures, unleash dynamic tension, and captivate by their timeless elegance.

An impression of seeming casualness, of the playfully momentary and passing, is an involuntary characteristic of Kienzer’s work – like a humorous commentary on the strict, block-like composition of some of his other works or on the draconian, regulated immobility of the world around us.

(Margareta Sandhofer, text excerpt from the catalogue ‘Some Works 09/2024’)