Kunsthalle Wien Prize 2015
Karina Mendreczky
2016 Sternberg Press Publication
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Copublished with Kunsthalle Wien and University of Applied Arts Vienna on the occasion of the exhibition Kunsthalle Wien Prize 2015, November 27, 2015–January 17, 2016.
With delicate lyricism, Karina Mendreczky creates fictional landscapes using light and shadow. As a recipient of the 2015 Kunsthalle Wien Prize, she created the installation Thin Dream at Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz.
Silhouettes of acrylic trees, whose details were hand-carved with an etching needle, were projected onto the back wall of the gallery to create the impression of actual large-format drawings. Mendreczky draws on the techniques of graphic printing and stage design to remind us that nature cannot be reproduced, although it frequently serves as a projection for our desires. At the same time, Thin Dream reflects on Mendreczky’s constant travels between Hungary, where she was born, and Austria, questioning the idea of a fixed sense of place.
Karina Mendreczky is the joint recipient of the 2015 Kunsthalle Wien Prize. Along with a color insert, this publication includes an essay on Mendreczky’s work by Bärbel Vischer, a conversation between the artist, Lucas Gehrmann, and Nicolaus Schafhausen, as well as forewords by Gerald Bast and Schafhausen.
Contributions: Gerald Bast, Lucas Gehrmann, Nicolaus Schafhausen, Bärbel Vischer
October 2016, English/German
13×19 cm, 48 pages, 10 b/w and 5 color ill., softcover
ISBN 978-3-95679-227-4
Design: Alexander Nussbaumer
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