Alfredo Barsuglia

Description

(…) I always try to be aware of the space. Consequently I develop and adjust my shows to the available space. I try to connect with the site, so to speak: I work site-specific. It’s not as if you enter an exhibition space and are suddenly aware of the fact that you’re in an art-show... but… you enter a room and then you start to discover and to read the objects and artworks and things you see and you start to understand the story and the content. The terms of reality and fiction mix up and sometimes reality blurs with fiction. The visitor doesn’t know which objects are ‘real’ and which ones are ‘fictive’… e.g the ‘ODERFLA Mouthwash’; you are unable to recognize whether it is real or invented. And that is exactly the question I am interested in. I like to leave the visitor in doubt of what is art(ificial) and what is real.

Furthermore, I like to give the visitor the possibility to become involved and discover my artwork by e.g. pressing a button of a telephone answering machine, opening a door into another room or reading a private diary.

Artist statement from an interview with Andrea Schrammel

(ACFDC, Washington)

Biography

Alfredo Barsuglia

born 1980 in Graz (Austria)

lives and works in Vienna (Austria) and New York (USA)

1999-2004  Studies at University of Applied Arts Vienna (A)

Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (A)

Academy of Fine Arts Cracow (PL)

Exhibitions (2006-2010, selection)

2010

Not at Home, 4Viertel Kunst bei Wittmann und MUMOK, Vienna (A)

Mobile Retreat Space, ACFDC, Washington (USA)

Its very artificiality becomes an attraction, Künstlerhaus Passagegalerie, Vienna (A)

Beauties For Your Imagination, stage intervention, Mikkel Hess - Hess is more, Club Nublu, NewYork (USA)

Glob(E)Scape, 2nd Moscow International Biennale, ARTPLAY Design Centre, Moscow (RU)

Walk The Line, Projektraum Viktor Bucher, Vienna (A)

2009

You are never fully dressed without a smile, Kunstverein das weisse haus, Vienna (A)

2008

The Importance of Being Beautiful, Gironcoli Museum-Herberstein, Herberstein (A)

Georg Eisler Kunstpreis, Bank Austria Kunstforum, Vienna (A)

The Butcher’s Secret Wish, Kunstverein das weisse haus – Satellit, Vienna (A)

Oderfla Beauty Resort, Yucca Valley/California (USA)

2007

Open Mouth, MAK NITE ©, MAK Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art, Vienna (A)

Oralhygiene 5, Galerie Patrick Ebensperger, Graz (A)

Art Award of the City of Graz, Graz (A)

2006

MAK-Schindler Artists and Architects in Residence, Los Angeles/California (USA)