It’s the sketchbooks again! They seems to turn the visitors on again and again.

Someone told me it could be that instead of staring at a picture on the wall or quickly walking past a sculpture you „hold the artist in your hands“. It’s getting away from the concept of entering an „art temple“ where you devotedly bow your head before the brilliant work of the artistic genius and move on. Sketchbooks are messy, imperfect, human but therefore authentic. You can take your time browsing through the pages. It’s haptic, personal, intimate. An appropriate alternative to seeing the world behind the glass screens of our now digital world. It’s low threshold. You approach the visitor. Art becomes tangible.

All of a sudden I am exhibiting. As a „has been“ industrial designer“ I have stumbled into the art world. Its so different to designing for a client. It follows different rules and rituals, which I am slowly getting used to.

The following pics are from two notopo exhibitions (Kunstverein artP in Perchtoldsdorf and VRSCHWNDN at the Kunsthaus Baden) and one about dreams in Christine Gobis Studio where I showed excerpts from my dream diaries.

The picture of the bubble and the „dream houses“ are by christine gobbi who kindly made it possible for us both to exhibit together with children from her school at her studio.