MARKUS REDL: FLUSSMITTE

The title of the exhibition ‘FLUSSMITTE’ refers to the art book ‘Flussmitte Porträts der Dinge’ which was recently published by Markus Redl. It contains drawings made over five years (2015-2020). A large part of these drawings originates from the period of the first two lockdowns in 2020, during the pandemic of CoVID19 and its aftermath. They are documents of the time, and a journey in a confined space; one's own living space and the way to the grocery store, combined with texts, through which another journey takes place, without much spatial movement. In these cycles of drawings language, text, space are compressed, layered on top of and within each other. 

For the Brecht-Zyklus II), the Baden-Baden Lesson on Consent was rewritten several times. Colours were assigned to the actors’ voices, and the threads of their statements, in the form of lines, words written with a brush, were laid in and on top of each other, were linked, and gradually structured an area that increasingly turned structureless. In Brecht's Lehrstück (didactic drama), a few outstanding members o the community, the aviators, flew higher than anybody else. They have moved away from the community and then crashed to the ground. Now, the community has to decide whether to help them, since the crashed aviators ask for their help. The community negotiates and decides not to help. The value of the

individual and the value of the community cannot be merged without friction and cannot easily be adapted to one another.

Recent solo exhibitions include 'Mudras', Galerie Kandlhofer, 2017; ‘Betrachtungen – Arbeiten aus 10 Jahren', Galerie Chobot, 2015 and 'Markus Redl. Vogelfrei', Galerie Kandlhofer, 2015. Group exhibitions include: Würth Sculpture Garden, Schloss Arenberg, Salzburg, AT 2021; 'Ich bin alles zugleich' Lan-desgalerie Niederösterreich, Krems, AT 2019; 'Menagerie‘, Forum Würth, Rorschack, 2017; 'A.E.I.O.U.', Art Forum Würth, Capena, 2017; 'Endurance', Galerie Kandlhofer, 2016; 'Der Erzherzogshut / 400 Jahre Krone für Österreich', Stiftsmuseum Klosterneuburg, AT 2016; 'Skulpturen im Park' Schloss Halbturn, Burgenland, AT 2015; 'Von Hockney bis Holbein Die Sammlung Würth in Berlin', Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, 2015; 'Menagerie / Tierschau aus der Sammlung Würth', Kunsthalle Würth, Schwäbisch Hall, DE 2013; ‚Wo die Kunst sich sammelt’, Museum Anger-lehner, AT 2013.