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Brigitte Kowanz
«Lost under the Surface»
Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich (CH)

Opening:
Wednesday, February 5, 2020 | 6 pm
Walk & Talk:
with Brigitte Kowanz and Director Sabine Schaschl | Wednesday, March 25, 2020 | 6:30 pm
Exhibition:
until September 13, 2020

Light is not the same as light. This can be experienced with the objects, installations and spatial interventions that Brigitte Kowanz has been realizing for over thirty years using different artificial light sources. Kowanz's extensive exhibition at Museum Haus Konstruktiv makes the diversity of the immaterial, fleeting medium evident.


For example, the cold glow of bottles and tubes filled with fluorescent paint meets delicate installations made of sandblasted acrylic glass panes and halogen lamps, which immerse the exhibition space in a sensual-poetic play of light and shadow. In addition to such early works, in which processes of lighting are a particular theme, numerous works from the following years are presented in which, for example, neon loops – in the form of characters and codes – formulate sociopolitical and cultural-theoretical messages. With such works in particular, Kowanz illustrates that light is not just a neutral vehicle for information, but rather plays a key role in shaping it. All in all, the solo show questions fundamental certainties: information is not as unambiguous as we would like it to be – a message that is clearly echoed in our supposedly «post-factual times».

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