Zenita Universe
21. Juli - 16. August 2008
Galerie Krinzinger
Seilerstätte 16, 1010 Wien
Tel: +43 1 513 3006
galeriekrinzinger@chello.at
Galerie Krinzinger
Seilerstätte 16, 1010 Wien
Tel: +43 1 513 3006
galeriekrinzinger@chello.at
Pressereaktionen:
Miss Universe der Kunst – oder belanglos?
Almuth Spiegler
in: Die Presse, 09.08.2008
Universales Prinzessinnenland
Christa Benzer
in: DerStandard, 07.08.2008
Claudia Aigner
in: Wiener Zeitung, 07.08.2008
It is
stages that Zenita Komad creates at Galerie Krinzinger, set up for the purpose
of self-presentation, which inevitably brings me to the question: Do I like
this? For Zenita’s claim is a seemingly casual, but in fact quite usurpatory
appropriation of all those parts of the world that seem important to her. In ‘Zenita
Universe’, the artist is the strategist who makes use of given artist attitudes
as naturally as she runs the gamut of networking in the scene. And finally art
history itself turns into a self-service store from which things are
unabashedly taken out, altered, and remixed: props in a pictorial
representation of Zenita’s universe! And all this is done with a self-confidence
which fascinates as much as it irritates, which attracts and repels. That is
one thing. But there is more, much more. Lurking behind ostensible shallowness
of such a concept and the déjà-vu experience (which is inevitable) is a
complicated artistic self-expression that is worth exploring. Secret messages,
visual allusions, social and political gibes and taunts, and again and again
the attempt to reorganize one’s own psyche and to make it communicable. These
are just some of the things which travel hand in hand in Zenita Universe –
provided with poignant intelligence – on a path which indeed makes the world
appear new. This is something that does not happen every day, and it brings me
to the decision: yes, I like the Zenita Universe.”
Ingried Brugger, Director BA-Kunstforum, Vienna
