Works
Maximilian Wagner: Kallisto
Studio exhibition of the Munich performance artist consisting of 4 video works and 10 photographs.
9 April 2015 – 21 April 2015
On 9 April beginning at 7 p.m. all are invited to the opening reception at the gallery. The artist will be present.
Introductory lecture by the Munich authoress Bettina Blumenberg, lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
The following works are presented in the show:
Maximilian Wagner: Kallisto
Kallistics is dealing with the theory of mere beauty. And if something was done properly, it won’t look ridiculous at all, will it? The video and photo works of the show “Kallisto” are meant to be a production of further sensible proofs for the thesis that everything can be seen in the perspective of aesthetics. For Maximilian Wagner and the visitors his oeuvre encloses the time before and after, the tension extending from the not yet experienced to an intense aftereffect. Four video works – „Babyface“, „Froh Eltern werden“, „Knacklaute“ and „Nutzer“ – and some seperate photo works are presented in this context as pure affects of perception.
The artist Maximilian Wagner (born 1986 in Hausham, Bavaria) attended the Fachhochschule für Gestaltung, Hamburg, 2005–2007, the Hochschule der Künste, Bern, 2009–2010, and belongs to the subject area “sculpting”, class of Professor Hermann Pitz, at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, from 2010. 2012–2013 he assisted the concept artist Wolfgang Flatz, Munich. Apart from the regular attendance to the annual Academy Exhibitions (2010–2014) and the group show “Golden Shower” (2010–2013) Maximilian Wagner is well known to the public for his video exhibition “Wir sind zu ähnlich” at the Academy Gallery 2012, for his participation at the Aichach Art Award 2013 as well as for the presentation of the video “Nutzer” as part of an exhibition of the art stundets group “Roundabout”.