Mar 9 – May 5, 2019
ANDREW NORMAN WILSON
3-D-Rendering prints
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1/3A Potato in Scout Troopers, 2019 -
2/3An Ultrasound Machine in a Handbag, 2019 -
3/3A Blueberry in a Chair, 2019
In his artistic work, Andrew Norman Wilson (*1983 in Potsdam, USA, lives in Los Angeles and Stuttgart) interweaves quotations from film and TV history with scientific findings and popular animation techniques. A recurring theme in his oeuvre is the question of which models we attempt to use to explain reality.
For his exhibition Hirngespenster (Brain Ghosts), Andrew Norman Wilson developed a kind of neo-baroque theme park at the Kunstverein with embedded video works and objects dedicated to the mysterious ghost of Helene Hollandt, the former resident of the Villa Salve Hospes. As part of the exhibition, prints of 3D renderings were created that adorned the windows of the Kunstverein’s exterior façade as a kind of second skin and content layer. Three of these motifs became annual editions.
These photorealistic but digitally constructed still lifes depict familiar objects in unusual combinations. From an ultrasound machine to a blueberry to a clone trooper, existing figures and objects join together to form strangely satisfying duos