Correspondences

The exhibition Correspondences discusses the concept of exchange on three different levels. Primarily, it manifests a regional cooperation between the European urban centers of Vienna and Bucharest. In doing so, it foregrounds the formal and stylistic divergences within the works of the participating artists – Laura Hinrichsmeyer, Dario Wokurka and Andrea Zabric – while simultaneously highlighting the dialogical relationship between gallerist Stefany Lazar and curator Alexandra-Maria Toth.  

The work of Dario Wokurka encompasses painting, watercolor, textile art, and conceptual exhibition formats that critically engage with information flows and the digital age. His watercolors depict glimpses of both the realism of daily life, and the perceptual condition of conscious thought. For Correspondences, Dario Wokurka will present multiples of a composition that references “Talking at Pomona”, a lecture by American poet David Antin, and will subsequently read out its transcript at Gallery S.L.S.R.L. as part of the gallery’s participatory reading and lecture series.
Laura Hinrichsmeyer creates immersive, ambivalent paintings that draw the viewer into a spatial experience. Her abstractions appear to have traveled millions of years back to a primordial past, as if from the perspective of a subatomic particle onto an expanse of matter that has not yet solidified. Logics of form, color, and texture compound one another until the complete dissolving of an image. The result is a portrayal of an arrangement of matter that subverts visual and cognitive perception while stimulating every aspect of both. 
The practice of Andrea Zabric interrogates the materiality of painting, juxtaposing historical techniques with structural extensions that conceptualize the medium as both a site of production and linguistic encounter. Her paintings, some created using the fresco technique or prepared with gesso and worked on using various pigments, wax and nails –  can be characterized by indeterminacy, and the imposition of the arbitrary nature of time. Andrea Zabric’s work is the most concretely embedded of the trio, but the conscious appropriation of classical antiquity into the contemporary makes her work equally material and intentional. Despite their formal divergences, the exhibition unites the three artists in their dedication to testing the limits of the image, bridging their distinct viewpoints into a cohesive dialogue of painterly correspondences.