Rudolf Polanszky: Eidola Exhibition at Secession Exploring Abstract Art and Philosophy

This exhibition showcases the work of artist Rudolf Polanszky, exploring abstract mathematical concepts and epistemological themes through sculptures, reliefs, and texts. Polanszky utilizes materials like plexiglass and metal, employing a non-linear method of spontaneous assembly to create 'translinear' structures.

The exhibition 'Eidola' by Rudolf Polanszky delves into complex abstract concepts, including the spatial ordering of prime numbers and the inversion of positive and negative spaces. Polanszky's practice involves transforming materials such as plexiglass, metal, and mirror foil by detaching them from their original purpose. He employs a method he terms 'ad-hoc synthesis,' a non-linear process of spontaneous assembly of existing materials and random forms, resulting in layered, overlapping, and nested structures. These 'translinear' or 'transaggregate' works, as Polanszky describes them, are 'unstable constructs of a subjective reality that point beyond a seemingly stable state.' The exhibition in the main room of the Secession presents a collection of sculptural works and image objects from recent years, offering insight into Polanszky's thought processes and his oeuvre. His work plays with the mutability of assertion against the immutability of fact. Polanszky explains his approach as an attempt to reorder and alter conceptual patterns, reorganizing his thought structures. He engages with perception and experience, questioning how we rationally decode external imagery using memory and available patterns of similarity. Through distortion and elongation of mental imagery, he seeks to alter the basic material of perception. The exhibition includes wall-mounted reliefs made from layered, assembled negative and positive cut-outs of thin plexiglass plates and foil, such as large-format mirror images titled 'Dunkle Spiegelung' and works from the 'Reconstructions' series. These are complemented by 'Primskulpturen,' 'Hypertransforme Skulpturen,' 'Konfusionsskulpturen,' and 'Hyperbolische Räume' arranged in loose groups, described by Polanszky as 'imagined conceptual spaces of multidimensional structures that, like the transaggregate structure, elude direct observation.'

Information regarding tickets for the exhibition is available via a link to the Secession shop. Entry details are not specified beyond directing visitors to ticket information, implying it may be a standard museum admission or require a specific exhibition ticket. The page is for an exhibition from 2018, so current access information may differ. The general opening hours are Tuesday-Sunday, 10 AM to 6 PM, with current opening status indicated as 'heute geöffnet'. Additional details about the 'Beethovenfries' and general visitor information are linked separately.