Heimo Zobernig and Simon Iurino

Simon Iurino (b.1986. Bozen, Italy ) works mainly in the field of sculpture and installation and is primarily interested in the points of intersection where different categories such as sculpture and architecture meet and overlap. The assembly of prefabricated metal structures allows the artist to recontextualize standard materials and modules by altering their aesthetics to create nine spatial configurations.

Another important element of Simon Iurino’s work is sculpture, both large and small. The sculptures are bent from prefabricated industrial materials, such as copper tubes or extruded ceramic pipes, through ceramic silk-screen prints, enamels and oxides, twisted and snaked upwards, creating a fascinating contrast to the architecture within the space, appearing rigorous and concise. The colorful X motif is printed on the ceramic tube, testifying to lurino’s predilection for geometric and repeated shapes.

Heimo Zobernig (b. 1958, Mauthen, Austria) is one of the best-known artists at an international level. His practice linked to a post-modernist logic challenges the devices and ways of ‘making an exhibition’. The work of Heimo Zobernig spans an array of media, from architectural intervention and installation, through performance, film and video, to sculpture and painting. His practice across all these forms is connected by an interrogation of the formal language of modernism, at its most familiar in the tropes of the monochrome and the grid, yet also concerned with Constructivism, colour theory and geometric abstraction. His riffs on these themes spill out from his paintings into sculptures, videos and room installations. Zobernig fundamentally subverts the high modernist ideal of the monochrome, compromising its aesthetic purity with the introduction of elements of the decorative, the functional, or the lightly comic.