330 West Street @ West Houston
New York, NY 10014
booth B-15 Lukas Feichtner Gallery
Duration
March 4 - 7, 2010
Press and VIP Private Preview
Thursday 9 am - 12 pm
Fair Hours
Thursday - Saturday 12 pm - 8 pm
Sunday 12 pm - 5 pm
Stylianos Schicho
perspex people
(Anpassung gläserener Menschen)
Opening: March 11, 2010, 6:00 p.m.
March 12 - April 10, 2010
Lukas Feichtner Gallery
Seilerstätte 19 - 1010 Vienna
http://www.feichtnergallery.com/
Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum
1st Danube Biennale
International exhibition of young artists
from the Danube countries
BRATISLAVA
4. 12. 2009 - 3. 1. 2010
OPENING: 4 DECEMBER, 2009 at 1:00 p. m.
Aqua Art Miami
December 3-6, 2009
http://www.myartspace.com/miamibasel/winners/winners2009.html
http://www.aquaartmiami.com
Harmen de Hoop, Sandbox, 1996
http://www.showroommama.nl/projects/forsecurityreasons09.cfm/
MAMA presents: For Security Reasons
Opening: Friday 28 August 19:00 – 23:00 - 18 October 2009
Showroom MAMA
Witte de Withstraat 29-31
3012 BL Rotterdam the Netherlands
Artists: Stylianos Schicho (AT), Jeroen Jongeleen (NL), SpY (ES), Harmen de Hoop (NL), Antoine Schmitt (FR), Desiree Palmen (NL), Fabian Bechtle/Stefan Reuter (DE), Sander Veenhof (NL)
For many people security measures are experienced as positive and effective. However well intended though, they limit our actions. The exhibition ‘For Security Reasons’ investigates the balance between safety and playfulness and displays a critical point of view on the latest developments in security. The exhibited art shows where there is space for playfulness in a society where security measures are more or less inviolable.
Curators : Tim Braakman, Marieke de Rooij and Aline Yntema.
Nina Doege, Tobias Hild, Elena Kozlova, Carina Linge, Marieken Matschenz,
Lutz Mueller, Alexandra Nemecky, Petra Strobl, Hendrik Voerkel, Eva Walker,
Markus Bacher, Matthias Bildstein, Berenice Darrer, Nicolas Dellamartina, Stefan Maier,
Christoph Mayer, Doris Mayer, Heike Schäfer, Stylianos Schicho, Daniel Schoch.
Group Exhibition.
20. und 21. June 2009
at the Baumwollspinnerei, Spinnereistraße 7, Halle 18, 2. Stock, D-04179 Leipzig
OPENING. saturday 20. June 2009, 10.30 am
OPENING-party. saturday 20. June 2009, 20.00 pm
CATALOGUE-PRESENTATION
VIDEO on castyourart.com
English: http://www.castyourart.com/en/index.php/2008/10/07/stylianos-schicho-painter/
Deutsch: http://www.castyourart.com/?s=Stylianos+Schicho&x=0&y=0&sn=1
In the view from above, the earth appears as an unpopulated globe. Zoom in, and a view appears of regions and cities, houses and roadways, playgrounds and parks, cafes and stores, all populated by humans who appear tiny, like ants, occupied, engaged in a multiplicity of movements. The view from above relativizes the action. It strips the individual of particularity. and dissipates into the countless paths of the masses. Such an overview of the viewer is primarily based on this moment of his unobservedness, aloofness, and distance.
What if, however, curiosity strikes? If the view creeps ever closer, for those who are interested in checking out life below in more detail? It involves the unavoidable risk of the voyeur: being caught in the act by a sudden, disturbingly inverted gaze.
The pictures of the painter Stylianos Schicho reveal such instants of immobilization in which time stops, but at the same time, everything overwhelms. The observer loses his bird’s-eye view and is suddenly sucked into the ant’s world. And the observed ones suddenly see themselves reflected. They sense themselves under a stranger’s view, which relativizes their inattention and their attention at the same time — a deer-caught-in-headlights effect.
Where surveillance uses technology as a channel, the private eye as a discoverer stays anonymous. The view is there, but the viewer is missing. In such a panoptic situation, in which humans gaze meets the lense, a direct confrontation is missing. Instead, movements towards withdrawal begin: the retreat of the observed ones under the observing gaze. The ones who observe become more and more hidden, the observed ones expose themselves - an ever larger hunger for detail.
Stylianos Schicho, sees this development rather pessimistically. One may not nevertheless let go. It should be possible to capture at least one moment of waking up and becoming aware. (wh/jn)
