Listings(s)
Sutherland Reflected
Marcus Neustetter and Bronwyn Lace at Goethe On MainThis is an exhibition of documentation of Bronwyn Lace and Marcus Neustetter's kite-making and -flying intervention that took place near the Sutherland Observatory in December 2008 and 2009. After its time at Goethe On Main, Sutherland Reflected will accompany the artists back to Sutherland, where it will form the basis of future collaborative interventions.
20 November 2009 - 11 December 2009
Observatory in the Making
Marcus Neustetter at Gallery AOPMarcus Neustetter exhibits a colection of sketches, photographs, sculptures and mquettes, all of which are preparatory material for an artist's astronomical observatory he plans to build near the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) in Sutherland.
12 December 2009 - 23 January 2010
'Between'
Marcus Neustetter at NIROX projectsFor artist Marcus Neustetter the ‘vertical gaze’ is an act of looking, be it up into the night sky and down into the layers of our earth. It is an act of sensitive and intensive observation that brings many answers and even more questions to the observer. These acts have led Neustetter in his artistic processes to working directly with archeologists and astronomers, observing them as they gain more complex understanding of time and space. Both practices look back in time and create recorded history. The elements of light traveling back, or objects buried beneath hold rich evidence to our past as well as point to our futures.
From an archeological perspective “The ‘stuff’ between/around artefacts of an archeological dig is called ‘matrix’. It is all part of the context, without which the ‘finds’ mean nothing. Rather like the silences/pauses between notes that give music its meaning.” Sven Ouzman
The space and stuff in-between is not an unknown entity but contains information one needs to make sense of what is in-situ. Therefore the spoil heap, debris or waste (left behind after sieving and sorting) continues to contain evidence that is important to understanding context and time. The act of digging never destroys but it does radically displace. Similarly debitage or waste flakes that are knocked off in the creation of a tool, indicate the process of conceptualizing and making the tool. The discarded elements, once studied reveal the negative space or space between to be as significant to the context as the object.
It is the displacement of the debris, the negative spaces and those elements, which lie between that Marcus Neustetter focusses on in this exhibition.
NIROXprojects will host an 'Evening with the Artist' on Thursday evening, 02 August, to coincide with the Night Market at Arts on Main, Maboneng Precinct, Johannesburg.
22 July 2012 - 08 August 2012
'Temporary but Permanent: Projects' (Postponed)
Marcus Neustetter and Stephen Hobbs at MOAD Museum of African DesignMOAD is proud to present Hobbs/Neustetter’s new multi screen video installation based on their performance piece for the 'Across The Board – Public Space / Public Sphere' – Tate Modern programme for the Sud Triennial, Douala, Cameroon, in December 2013.
In addition the basement gallery will showcase a range of works reflecting on their concerns with public and building environment conditions.
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Exhibition Opening Postponed
29 October 2014 - 14 December 2014
'courier-dialogue'
Marcus Neustetter and Walter Stach at NiROX PROJECTS at Arts on Main'courier-dialogue' is a long-distance artistic visual dialogue between Walter Stach (Vienna, Austria) and Marcus Neustetter (Johannesburg, South Africa)
JNB - VIE
Page - Farbe
Strich - Map
Response - Papier
Versenden - Territory
Journey - Pinsel
Grenzen - Mark
Distance - Überschreiten
70 - 100
Nonverbal - Signatur
Interkulturalität - Pen
Wrapping - Warten
Communication - Transport
Pause - Anticipation
Stance - Bedachtnahme
8365 - Luftlinie
Since January 2011 the artists have been posting drawings and art-objects in progress to each other, adding to them and returning them via courier. Artworks travel back and forth between Johannesburg and Vienna, evolving, until both artists consider these collaborative works finished.
The courier exchange is made possible by the support of the Austrian Ministry for European and International Affairs and the Austrian Embassy in Pretoria and their diplomatic courier service.
The project and collaboration between the artists grew out of an artistic project during the European- (2008), Confederation- (2009) and World Cup (2010). 2011 saw the presentation of the 'Courier-Dialogue' artworks in Vienna and in 2012 the final works are presented in Johannesburg.
Walter Stach will also be presenting some of his own works in the Nirox exhibition space.
25 November 2012 - 13 December 2012
'Defining Lines'
Marcus Neustetter at Gallery AOPThe trajectory from Neustetter’s interest in the aerial perspective and his artworks exploring the digital Google Earth trace, the hand-made mark has become a natural extension through his drawings. Conceptually his shift has also been to start looking at the meaning of the marks representing the aerial view. What do they stand for, what do they define?
The artworks on the exhibition Defining Lines, attempt to imbue the mark with the kind of real world impact that a line on a territorial map has.
Abstracting and isolating the line is as much about the escape of the realities of borders of separation and zones of conflict as it is about contemplating the line itself and the spaces it creates. What the line divides and what the spaces are that it separates is only presented to the viewer through the titles of works like Wall I and II, No-mans-land, and the series of country names of places of conflict.
20 September 2014 - 18 October 2014
'The Space between the Stars'
Marcus Neustetter at Gallery AOPThe new suite of 12 new digital prints by Marcus Neustetter, titled The Space between the Stars, captures some of the research for the stamps that Neustetter recently designed for the South African Post Office, celebrating South Africa’s role in astronomy.
“My interest in both drawing and working in the digital domain at the intersection of art, science and technology has led me to experiment with the translation of data and scientific observations into artistic marks that move between the hand-made and the digitally manipulated. Working closely with people outside of my own field, such as historians, archeologists, astrophysicists and astronomers, my obsession with the perspective into space and down onto the surface of the earth, has driven me to attempt to capture abstract metaphors of the vastness of outer space in juxtaposition with the context, instruments and tools for observing, measuring and translating the data gathered”.
Investigating observatories and satellites, Neustetter captures the very place and methods on earth from which both celestial bodies and the surface of the earth are typically studied. It is as if Neustetter is returning the gaze from the stars back to the people on earth who study them.
05 July 2012 - 07 July 2012
