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The Darker Ages by Torsten Lauschmann
Growing Zeroes 2008, Video projection, Still from film 12 Hrs (Loop), Edition of 5 (c) Courtesy of the artist and Mary Mary
Mary Mary, Glasgow
21 October 2009, 6.30-7.30pm
Torsten Lauschmann’s recent works centre on the breaking down of the vocabularies that exist within a contemporary art practice, with his work attempting to ‘decode’ the intended messages found there. Free from an obligation to communicate specific meaning, Lauschmann’s works have an openness in interpretation and manipulation, which include film and installation works, that use clips from both a personal and found collection, installed so as to strip and order the narrative. With this, Lauschmann is playfully altering a sense of time and origin, and constructing ‘visual fables, which are deliberately invented or falsified.’
For his show at the Mary Mary, Lauschmann will present a group of film works, wall paintings and a series of video and slide projections, featuring archive footage of the Fairground Sideshow and focuses on the use of light as an expressive medium both within film and painted surface.
Born 1970 in Bad Soden, Germany, Lauschmann lives and works in Glasgow. Recent exhibitions include solo shows such as Nought to Sixty, ICA, London; Arnolfini, Bristol and Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, all 2008.