Klaus Mosettig: Pradolux Exhibition – Exploring Abstract Drawings and Artistic Representation

The exhibition 'Pradolux' by Klaus Mosettig showcases a selection of recent drawings. Mosettig explores the abstract character of documentary images and the artistic process of representation through meticulous detail and conceptual play, referencing found photographs and iconic artworks.

Klaus Mosettig, a Vienna-based artist, presents 'Pradolux' at the Secession, featuring a collection of recent drawings. Mosettig's work is characterized by groups of pieces that, while differing in subject and appearance, are unified by a consistent artistic approach. The series 'Apollo 11' draws from found slides of the moon landing, focusing on the abstract nature of the images and the act of meticulous projection onto paper rather than the historical event itself. This highlights projection as a tool in contemporary image production and the gesture of artistic depiction within the traditional medium of drawing, composed of uniformly oriented and dense hatching. Further exploring artistic transformation, Mosettig reinterprets Jackson Pollock's 'Number 32' through meticulous drawing based on a slide projection. This process renders Pollock's dripped paint into a 'nervous, trembling web.' The work ironizes established art-viewing categories like the authenticity of painterly gesture and the artist's visionary status. The horizontal presentation of Mosettig's work challenges the conventional hanging of drip paintings. Additionally, Mosettig's repeated drawing of a Pollock ink work fifteen times creates a paradoxical unity between the idea of the unique original and market-driven duplication. The exhibition title 'Pradolux' derives from a third body of work where Mosettig focuses on minute markings on projector lens, resembling a star map, which are actually lens impurities brought into sharp focus. This consistent aspect of Mosettig's art emphasizes how meticulous depiction of random structures does not necessarily yield subject-specific insight but rather challenges established boundaries and destabilizes orientations.

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