Spinning Cube 48 colors (#3)

Unique, Basswood, acrylic ink, motor, 61 x 61 x 61 cm,

 

   

 

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Born in Grieskirchen, Austria in 1966

 

 

Alois Kronschlaeger is best known for his site-specific installations and sculptures, which demonstrate a preoccupation with environment and light, as well as an interest in exploring time and space via geometry. His work has been exhibited at such international institutions and festivals as The Bruce Museum of Arts and Sciences (Connecticut), Yuan Art Museum (Beijing), MOCA Tucson (AZ), MAC Lima (Peru), and Islamic Arts Festival (Sharjah), among others. 

Since 2011, the artist has produced five site-specific public installations with " SITE:LAB ", including Hybrid Structures, which consisted of a series of interconnected ramps and platforms that traversed a deconsecrated church campus. Kronschlaeger currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

 

Over the course of a decades-long career as an artist, Alois Kronschlaeger has developed a multidisciplinary practice that cultivates the possibility of mapping one’s own relation to larger spatial, temporal, and historical realities. Simultaneously informed by artists as varied as Sol LeWitt and Carlos Cruz-Diez, as well as architects like Friedrich Kiesler, Kronschlaeger foregrounds the present moment of embodied perception to illuminate our location in space and time in new and immediate ways. 

 

Kronschlaeger extended his fascination with the grid and mapping into a series of polychromatic structures that are equally disorienting in their repetition of the cubic module but are infused with the dynamism of color. Projects like Grid Structure #1 (2014), installed at the Bruce Museum, and Polychromatic Contemplations (2018), the artist's first one-person museum exhibition, are site-specific installations that both beguile and enchant.

As viewers make their way around these lattice towers, the overlapping grids at times seem to expand to encompass a coherent volume, while at others, collapse into seemingly two-dimensional renderings.

The colors applied to the facets of the rods composing the sculptures shimmer and mutate as viewers change their position in relation to the work, an effect also powerfully realized in Kronschlaeger’s series of “Spinning Cubes.” 

 

More recently, Kronschlaeger has literalized the seeming expansion and contraction of his grids by envisioning structures that do precisely that. Building on the architectural history of the “space frame,” Kronschlaeger has developed prototypes for grid structures that, when pulled from either side, stretch into space.

 

 

 

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Né à Grieskirchen, Austria en 1966

 

 

Alois Kronschlaeger est surtout connu pour ses installations et sculptures in situ, qui témoignent d'une préoccupation pour l'environnement et la lumière, ainsi que d'un intérêt pour l'exploration du temps et de l'espace par le biais de la géométrie. Son travail a été exposé dans des institutions et festivals internationaux tels que le Bruce Museum of Arts and Sciences (Connecticut), le Yuan Art Museum (Beijing), le MOCA Tucson (AZ), le MAC Lima (Pérou) et le Islamic Arts Festival (Sharjah), entre autres. 

 

Depuis 2011, l'artiste a réalisé cinq installations publiques spécifiques avec " SITE:LAB ", dont Hybrid Structures, qui consistait en une série de rampes et de plateformes interconnectées traversant le campus d'une église déconsacrée. Kronschlaeger vit et travaille actuellement à Brooklyn, New York.

 

Au cours d'une carrière artistique de plusieurs décennies, Alois Kronschlaeger a développé une pratique multidisciplinaire qui cultive la possibilité de cartographier sa propre relation avec des réalités spatiales, temporelles et historiques plus vastes. S'inspirant simultanément d'artistes aussi divers que Sol LeWitt et Carlos Cruz-Diez, ainsi que d'architectes comme Friedrich Kiesler, Kronschlaeger met l'accent sur le moment présent de la perception corporelle pour éclairer notre situation dans l'espace et le temps de manière nouvelle et immédiate. 

 

Kronschlaeger a étendu sa fascination pour la grille et la cartographie à une série de structures polychromes qui sont tout aussi désorientantes dans leur répétition du module cubique, mais qui sont imprégnées du dynamisme de la couleur. Des projets comme Grid Structure #1 (2014), installé au Bruce Museum, et Polychromatic Contemplations (2018), la première exposition muséale individuelle de l'artiste, sont des installations spécifiques à un site qui à la fois séduisent et enchantent.

 

Alors que les spectateurs tournent autour ses constructions en treillis, les grilles qui se chevauchent semblent parfois s'étendre pour englober un volume cohérent, tandis qu'à d'autres moments, elles s'effondrent en des rendus apparemment bidimensionnels.

 

Les couleurs appliquées aux facettes des tiges qui composent les sculptures scintillent et se transforment à mesure que le spectateur change de position par rapport à l'œuvre, un effet que l'on retrouve également dans la série des "Spinning Cubes". 

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Exhibitions

SITE SPECIFIC INSTALLATION & SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

 

2019

Shifting Landscape, Havana Biennal, Havana, Cuba (site-specific)

 

 

2018

Polychromatic Contemplations, Figge Art Museum, Daventport, 

 

IA Shifting Landscape, Art Ovation Hotel, Sarasota, FL *site-specific project

 

Alois Kronschlaeger: time, space, color, Roldan Moderno, Buenos Aires, Argentina 

 

 

2017

Alois Kronschlaeger: New Work, Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York, NY 

 


2016

Sin Título, Design House, Mexico City, Mexico (with Peana Projects) (site-specific)

 


2015

Polychromatic Structures, Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York, NY

 

Lobby installation, V Diseño S.A., Lima, Peru (site-specific)

 

Lobby installation, Lomas Cantabria, Mexico City, Mexico *site-specific 

 


2013

Untitled (Basin and Range), Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson,AZ (site-specific)

 

UNTITLED, Miami, FL (with SiTE:LAB) (site-specific) 

 

 

2012

Habitat, Grand Rapids Public Museum, Grand Rapids, MI (site-specific)

 

 

2011

Allotropisms, Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York, NY Spire, (Site-Specific)

 

East Fulton Street, Grand Rapids, MI (with SITE:LAB), (Site-Specific)

 

 

2009

Skylight Vitrine, Hendershot Gallery, Hotel Delano, Miami, FL (Site-Specific)

 

 

2006 

Repercussions, Plus Ultra Gallery (Winkleman Gallery), New York, NY

 

 

2001-2011

15 Degrees Longitude East, Isperdorf, Austria

 

 

2001

Residue & Concealement, Kunsträume auf Zeit, Linz, Austria

 

 

2000

Cameo Appearence, Fotowerkstatt, Linz, Austria

 

 

1996

Landscape & Metropolis, Design Center Linz, Austria

 

 

1995

Fünf Licht-Wassertore, Nuekirchen, West Austria

 

 

1991

Seibu Gallery Transmedium, Tokyo, Japan, Nogizaka Art Hall, Tokyo, Japan

 

 

 

 

AWARDS, GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES

 

 

 

2017

Hybrid Structures, "Best of Show" 2017 Small Commercial Design Award, The American Institute of Architects+

 

 

2013

Gregory Millard Fellow, New York Foundation for the Arts

 

New York Foundation in the Arts, Fellowship in Architecture - Environmental Structures - Design

 

 

2012

Habitat, Winner Two Dimensional Juried Award, Presented by Tyler Green for ArtPrize

 

 

2002

School of Visual Arts Graduate Scholarship 

 

 

2001 

15 Degree Longitude East, Kultur-Sponsoring-Prize Nieder Osterreich, Project

 

 

1997

Artist in Residence, NEXT, 3. Internationale Projekt Fur Bildende Kunst, Graz, Austria

 

1995

Grant, Ministry of Education and Culture, Vienna, Austria, Project Proposal: Union Square Park

 

 

1994

Grant, Government of Upper Austria, Linz, Project proposal: Schlogener Lichtbrucke