So far it has principally been Josef Dabernig’s films, such as “Wisla”, “WARS” and “Rosa coeli”, that have received international attention. Now for the first time this one-man exhibition brings together different forms of expressive media – film, photography, text, object and building – and highlights their contentual-conceptual association. Moreover, the exhibition was developed by Dabernig for the gallery’s new building. Since the late eighties Dabernig’s sculptures have been based on comprehensible systems of order, and their point of departure may lie within the material itself which is used in each case, such as in the width of the l and u-form profiles and /or in the dimensions of the exhibition space. Deviations of form are either built into the works themselves or arise in confrontation with their particular architectural milieu.
The exhibition is being held as part of the Heimat Modernism project, a joint initiative by a number of Leipzig institutions and groups, funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes.
