Tillman Kaiser
Curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto
NOVO - Eduardo Secci
Milan, from April 28 to August 5, 2022
Opening of the solo show and new gallery location in Via Olmetto:
Thursday, April 28, 6:00 - 9:00 pm
Exhibition walkthrough video available online
Exhibition view, Unmatter, 2022, Eduardo Secci Milano, Photo The Knack Studio, Courtesy the artists and Eduardo Secci, Milan, Florence
Eduardo Secci is pleased to announce the opening of the new location in the historic center of Milan, in Via Olmetto 1, joining the venue in the city and Florence.
The rooms dedicated to the program of NOVO - the independent experimental space of the gallery - open on April 28, 2022, with the exhibition of Tillman Kaiser, curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto. The solo show of the Austrian painter and sculptor in Milan takes place until August 5, 2022.
Tillman Kaiser's artistic practice combines different languages, including painting, drawing, photography, silk-screen printing, collage, and sculpture.
His abstract mixed media work is characterized by symmetrical compositions generated by a repetition and perspective distortion of graphic signs. The artist paints in oil and watercolor on the surfaces of cyanotypes, photograms, and photographs applied to canvas and paper.
The paintings from which the multiplied motifs emerge, resulting in a kaleidoscopic effect, interact with sculptural works of futuristic appearance. Conceived using simple materials such as cardboard, these constitute repetitive geometric forms, which evoke the Avant-gardes and Early Modernism.
The Dualism of Tillman Kaiser
Curatorial text by Pier Paolo Pancotto
A continuous dualism seems to govern the creative process of Tillman Kaiser (Graz, 1972; he lives and works in Vienna): order and disorder, rigor and approximation, ideation and fantasy; both from a methodological and linguistic point of view. From the very beginning, after completing his training at the Akademie der bildenden Künste in Vienna in the 90s. His works, in fact, are the result of the fusion of various techniques - painting, photography, drawing, typographical systems - each time elaborated with different procedures that give each creation a particular uniqueness and make it, in its own way, unrepeatable while being part of a cycle or series. In this process, great space is left to the case on which the artist relies so that the very nature of the materials takes its course and reacts freely to endogenous and exogenous agents that can intervene in them. So "errors" such as the unplanned incidence of light in photographic experiments, the unexpected response of a color compared to the worktop - canvas, paper, wood - which is intended, the contrast generated by the encounter between refined and humble materials - especially in the plastic field -, the surprises resulting from a fortuitous pictorial gesture are a proof of the continuous hazard that feeds the path of Kaiser; and it becomes a distinctive character, despite the apparent regularity that dominates its production generated by the marked geometrism that occurs in it as well as by the reduced color gamut that accompanies it. This orientation reflects the deep sense of freedom with which the artist confronts the world around him, a world of which, in the same way, he highlights the absolute articulation and heterogeneity; and, driven by his reflective nature (not surprisingly he is very fond of Surrealism, Magritte and de Chirico), even the deepest contradictions.
It is no coincidence that many of his creations can be assimilated, physically and conceptually, to kaleidoscopes, once very popular tools that, turned towards a light source, give a dynamic and constantly evolving vision of reality: regular and at the same time distorted, perspective but also two-dimensional. Echoes of the historical avant-gardes, from Futurism to Constructivism to the post-World War II abstract expressionism through Cercle et Carré, emerge in his works confirming the continuous syntactic shift that is accompanied by the technical. The reference to the Modernism of the early twentieth century is reinforced above all by the choice of materials used: consistent and ephemeral at the same time, for example, paper or cardboard that, associated with elements belonging to everyday life, give his works a primordial character, almost prototype.
All the visual and stylistic components just mentioned are confirmed in the exhibition in Milan. It is presented in the form of a single, large installation without any form of generic and hierarchical distinction between the selected works, all dated between 2020 and 2022, some of which were made for the occasion. In fact, painting, sculpture, drawing, photography are placed in dialogue with each other seamlessly, in line with the artist’s thought: "A fundamental feature of my work is this: to connect things and images that do not have a natural or logical connection thus opening new spaces to the imagination". As on other previous occasions, the solo exhibition at the Pietro Canonica Museum in Rome (2016) or at the Vienna Secession (2019) or the intervention at the Belvedere (2010), in both cases in the Austrian capital, also on this occasion Kaiser mixes paintings and sculptures, large and small, on canvas and paper, tempera and oil, with photographic plant and printing, in white/black or a few other colors, the blue above all, developed now in timbre solution, now tonal. Altogether, according to a cyclical attitude in the artist’s path and that is renewed once again.
The exhibition walkthrough video will be online at: www.novo.ooo/exhibitions.
Pier Paolo Pancotto is curator of the Art Club exhibition program of Villa Medici - French Academy in Rome.
Tillman Kaiser (1972, Graz, Austria) lives and works in Vienna. The painter and sculptor studied with Friedensreich Hundertwasser and Hubert Schmalix at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. His work have been exhibited at Belvedere 21 in Vienna (2021), Secession in Vienna (2019), 21er Haus in Vienna (2017, 2014, 2012), Museo Pietro Canonica in Rome (2016), WallRiss Kunstraum and Kunsthaus Langenthal in Freiburg (2014), Kunsthalle Krems Factory (2013), Museum Belvedere in Vienna (2010), Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius (2010), Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna (2010), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco (2009), Neue Galerie Graz (2007).
Eduardo Secci Secci is an Italian gallery founded in 2013 in Florence with a second location in Milan from June 2021. It presents a double program featuring the exhibitions of the main gallery and its independent experimental space NOVO.
Exhibition view, Unmatter, 2022, Eduardo Secci Milano, Photo The Knack Studio, Courtesy the artists and Eduardo Secci, Milan, Florence
NOVO Milano (Via Olmetto) NEW LOCATION
Tillman Kaiser
Curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto
From April 28 to August 5, 2022
Eduardo Secci Milano (Via Olmetto) NEW LOCATION
Unmatter - Joshua Hagler, Luisa Rabbia, Maja Ruznic
Curated by Alberto Fiz
From April 28 to August 5, 2022
Opening: Thursday, April 28, 6:00 - 9:00 pm
Via Olmetto 1, Milan, Italy / milano@eduardosecci.com
Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 10:00 am - 1:30 pm / 2:30 - 7:00 pm
Eduardo Secci Milano (Via Zenale)
Daniel Crews-Chubb and Kevin Francis Gray
Curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto
From April 1 to June 3, 2022 (extended)
Via Zenale 3, Milan, Italy / +39 02 38248728 / milano@eduardosecci.com
Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 10:00 am - 1:30 pm / 2:30 - 7:00 pm
Eduardo Secci Firenze
a question of vibrancy/earthly sight - Natalie Ball, Khari Johnson-Ricks, Maria Maea, Azikiwe Mohammed, Devin N. Morris, Ambrose Rhapsody Murray, Elise Peterson, Adee Roberson, Khalif Tahir Thompson
Curated by Essence Harden
From March 25 to May 21, 2022
Piazza Goldoni 2, Florence, Italy / +39 055 661356 / firenze@eduardosecci.com
Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 10:00 am - 1:30 pm / 2:30 - 7:00 pm
www.novo.ooo / hello@novo.ooo / IG @novo_projects / FB @NOVOprojects
www.eduardosecci.com / gallery@eduardosecci.com / IG @eduardoseccigallery / FB @eduardoseccicontemporary
Exhibition walkthroughs videos with artists and curators:
www.novo.ooo/exhibitions - www.eduardosecci.com/exhibitions
Press Office: THE KNACK STUDIO / Tamara Lorenzi
tamara@theknackstudio.com / +39 347 0712934
info@theknackstudio.com / www.theknackstudio.com
Tillman Kaiser
Curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto
NOVO - Eduardo Secci
Milan, from April 28 to August 5, 2022
Opening of the solo show and new gallery location in Via Olmetto:
Thursday, April 28, 6:00 - 9:00 pm
Exhibition walkthrough video available online
Exhibition view, Unmatter, 2022, Eduardo Secci Milano, Photo The Knack Studio, Courtesy the artists and Eduardo Secci, Milan, Florence
Eduardo Secci is pleased to announce the opening of the new location in the historic center of Milan, in Via Olmetto 1, joining the venue in the city and Florence.
The rooms dedicated to the program of NOVO - the independent experimental space of the gallery - open on April 28, 2022, with the exhibition of Tillman Kaiser, curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto. The solo show of the Austrian painter and sculptor in Milan takes place until August 5, 2022.
Tillman Kaiser's artistic practice combines different languages, including painting, drawing, photography, silk-screen printing, collage, and sculpture.
His abstract mixed media work is characterized by symmetrical compositions generated by a repetition and perspective distortion of graphic signs. The artist paints in oil and watercolor on the surfaces of cyanotypes, photograms, and photographs applied to canvas and paper.
The paintings from which the multiplied motifs emerge, resulting in a kaleidoscopic effect, interact with sculptural works of futuristic appearance. Conceived using simple materials such as cardboard, these constitute repetitive geometric forms, which evoke the Avant-gardes and Early Modernism.
The Dualism of Tillman Kaiser
Curatorial text by Pier Paolo Pancotto
A continuous dualism seems to govern the creative process of Tillman Kaiser (Graz, 1972; he lives and works in Vienna): order and disorder, rigor and approximation, ideation and fantasy; both from a methodological and linguistic point of view. From the very beginning, after completing his training at the Akademie der bildenden Künste in Vienna in the 90s. His works, in fact, are the result of the fusion of various techniques - painting, photography, drawing, typographical systems - each time elaborated with different procedures that give each creation a particular uniqueness and make it, in its own way, unrepeatable while being part of a cycle or series. In this process, great space is left to the case on which the artist relies so that the very nature of the materials takes its course and reacts freely to endogenous and exogenous agents that can intervene in them. So "errors" such as the unplanned incidence of light in photographic experiments, the unexpected response of a color compared to the worktop - canvas, paper, wood - which is intended, the contrast generated by the encounter between refined and humble materials - especially in the plastic field -, the surprises resulting from a fortuitous pictorial gesture are a proof of the continuous hazard that feeds the path of Kaiser; and it becomes a distinctive character, despite the apparent regularity that dominates its production generated by the marked geometrism that occurs in it as well as by the reduced color gamut that accompanies it. This orientation reflects the deep sense of freedom with which the artist confronts the world around him, a world of which, in the same way, he highlights the absolute articulation and heterogeneity; and, driven by his reflective nature (not surprisingly he is very fond of Surrealism, Magritte and de Chirico), even the deepest contradictions.
It is no coincidence that many of his creations can be assimilated, physically and conceptually, to kaleidoscopes, once very popular tools that, turned towards a light source, give a dynamic and constantly evolving vision of reality: regular and at the same time distorted, perspective but also two-dimensional. Echoes of the historical avant-gardes, from Futurism to Constructivism to the post-World War II abstract expressionism through Cercle et Carré, emerge in his works confirming the continuous syntactic shift that is accompanied by the technical. The reference to the Modernism of the early twentieth century is reinforced above all by the choice of materials used: consistent and ephemeral at the same time, for example, paper or cardboard that, associated with elements belonging to everyday life, give his works a primordial character, almost prototype.
All the visual and stylistic components just mentioned are confirmed in the exhibition in Milan. It is presented in the form of a single, large installation without any form of generic and hierarchical distinction between the selected works, all dated between 2020 and 2022, some of which were made for the occasion. In fact, painting, sculpture, drawing, photography are placed in dialogue with each other seamlessly, in line with the artist’s thought: "A fundamental feature of my work is this: to connect things and images that do not have a natural or logical connection thus opening new spaces to the imagination". As on other previous occasions, the solo exhibition at the Pietro Canonica Museum in Rome (2016) or at the Vienna Secession (2019) or the intervention at the Belvedere (2010), in both cases in the Austrian capital, also on this occasion Kaiser mixes paintings and sculptures, large and small, on canvas and paper, tempera and oil, with photographic plant and printing, in white/black or a few other colors, the blue above all, developed now in timbre solution, now tonal. Altogether, according to a cyclical attitude in the artist’s path and that is renewed once again.
The exhibition walkthrough video will be online at: www.novo.ooo/exhibitions.
Pier Paolo Pancotto is curator of the Art Club exhibition program of Villa Medici - French Academy in Rome.
Tillman Kaiser (1972, Graz, Austria) lives and works in Vienna. The painter and sculptor studied with Friedensreich Hundertwasser and Hubert Schmalix at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. His work have been exhibited at Belvedere 21 in Vienna (2021), Secession in Vienna (2019), 21er Haus in Vienna (2017, 2014, 2012), Museo Pietro Canonica in Rome (2016), WallRiss Kunstraum and Kunsthaus Langenthal in Freiburg (2014), Kunsthalle Krems Factory (2013), Museum Belvedere in Vienna (2010), Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius (2010), Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna (2010), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco (2009), Neue Galerie Graz (2007).
Eduardo Secci Secci is an Italian gallery founded in 2013 in Florence with a second location in Milan from June 2021. It presents a double program featuring the exhibitions of the main gallery and its independent experimental space NOVO.
Exhibition view, Unmatter, 2022, Eduardo Secci Milano, Photo The Knack Studio, Courtesy the artists and Eduardo Secci, Milan, Florence
NOVO Milano (Via Olmetto) NEW LOCATION
Tillman Kaiser
Curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto
From April 28 to August 5, 2022
Eduardo Secci Milano (Via Olmetto) NEW LOCATION
Unmatter - Joshua Hagler, Luisa Rabbia, Maja Ruznic
Curated by Alberto Fiz
From April 28 to August 5, 2022
Opening: Thursday, April 28, 6:00 - 9:00 pm
Via Olmetto 1, Milan, Italy / milano@eduardosecci.com
Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 10:00 am - 1:30 pm / 2:30 - 7:00 pm
Eduardo Secci Milano (Via Zenale)
Daniel Crews-Chubb and Kevin Francis Gray
Curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto
From April 1 to June 3, 2022 (extended)
Via Zenale 3, Milan, Italy / +39 02 38248728 / milano@eduardosecci.com
Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 10:00 am - 1:30 pm / 2:30 - 7:00 pm
Eduardo Secci Firenze
a question of vibrancy/earthly sight - Natalie Ball, Khari Johnson-Ricks, Maria Maea, Azikiwe Mohammed, Devin N. Morris, Ambrose Rhapsody Murray, Elise Peterson, Adee Roberson, Khalif Tahir Thompson
Curated by Essence Harden
From March 25 to May 21, 2022
Piazza Goldoni 2, Florence, Italy / +39 055 661356 / firenze@eduardosecci.com
Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 10:00 am - 1:30 pm / 2:30 - 7:00 pm
www.novo.ooo / hello@novo.ooo / IG @novo_projects / FB @NOVOprojects
www.eduardosecci.com / gallery@eduardosecci.com / IG @eduardoseccigallery / FB @eduardoseccicontemporary
Exhibition walkthroughs videos with artists and curators:
www.novo.ooo/exhibitions - www.eduardosecci.com/exhibitions
Press Office: THE KNACK STUDIO / Tamara Lorenzi
tamara@theknackstudio.com / +39 347 0712934
info@theknackstudio.com / www.theknackstudio.com
