The aestheticization of the everyday world through advertising and mass media has successively increased since the invention of printing technology, having developed a virtually intolerable dominance in the present era. As a result, the human subject is immersed in a state of perpetual comparison of imagery—gauging the distance between mediatic standards and the actual picture of reality. Fathoming these discrepancies is a focal aim of the artwork of Tanja Roscic, Tatjana Trouvé, Daniele Buetti, and Björn Dahlem, who have developed distinct cosmological systems, indeed, veritable counter-realities. In view of these cosmological escapades, the exhibition negotiates the pressing questions of deficiency in the framework of normative-social concepts.

Artists

Christoph Doswald

Christoph Doswald is an independent curator, publisher and chairman of the department for Art in Public Space of the City of Zurich. His latest project Art and the City with contributions by Ai Weiwei, Maurizio Cattelan, Paul McCarthy, Marjetica Potrc, Lara Almarcegui, Valentin Carron, Oscar Tuazon, Roe Ethridge deals with the interactions between art and the urban space. Since the mid-1980s Doswald has published on various contemporary art subjects and exhibitions and has curated many exhibition projects such as Missing Link. Das Menschen-Bild in der Fotografie (Missing Link. The Human Image in Photography) at Kunstmuseum Bern and Kunsthaus Dresden as well as Nonchalance at CentrePasquArt, Biel/Akademie der Künste, Berlin 1997/1998 or Press Art at Kunstmuseum St. Gallen/Museum der Moderne, Salzburg 2010.

Kerstin Engholm Galerie

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