Siegfried A. Fruhauf – Films, Stereo Sights, monochrome painting, and a conversation

Films:
Vintage Print (2015, 13min)
Night Sweat (2008, 10min)
Mare Imbrium (2024, 12min)

Siegfried A. Fruhauf's artistic works, which have been created for both cinema and exhibition spaces since the late 1990s, are literally multi-layered: the idea for a new work often develops from material that has already been exposed. “A snippet often hangs around for a long time” before it is subjected to profound examination and processing: A 19th-century photographic negative, "stored" and preserved on a glass plate, for example, is subjected to furious digital layering and compression (Vintage Print) with reference to a “pre-cinematic mass medium” called transparent painting. The screen flickers, glows, and pulses. Fruhauf is never an essentialist. Film/video, photography—both analog and digital—printing techniques, and (serial) painting do not serve him as a means of “reproducing reality,” but rather as tools for “experimentation” to explore the connections within this reality. In the process, filmmakers and viewers have impressive (visual) experiences.

“Everything disappears without a trace in the cinema. Nothing remains on the screen, everything dissolves.” – With this in mind, we invite you to a unique evening featuring three films, plus Stereo Sights: The Ground Control Files, monochrome artworks (“kinds of paintings”), and a discussion. With a pull effect and other special effects in 2D and 3D on the (projection) screen and monitors – and outside, the full moon will be a fitting bonus. You'll see. (Isabella Reicher)

Talking Screen aims to explore the question of the diverse forms of presentation of films in the exhibition context, but also the cross-media interferences with other artistic practices. The presentation formats conceived together with the guests are deliberately kept open and are intended to include multifaceted varieties of (performative) self-presentation as well as to enable a critical discourse on cinematic formats and forms. A combination of films, discussion and micro-exhibition is intended as the setting for each evening.

sixpackfilm in cooperation with Künstlerhaus Wien