Anne Schmidt
MICHELANGELO
2020 · painting and sculpture
7 February - 14 March 2020
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Is Anne Schmidt fake? It is certain that there is an artistic persona which operates under
this name, but various others have already been tested. There is evidence of Anne
Schmidt left on the gallery’s wall, a hole - from when she bumped into the premises
through its intriguing doorway (entering feels like squeezing oneself through a small hole,
don’t you think?).
The outcome reminds the contemporary spectator of Adam Driver in
“Marriage Story”, who in rage punches a hole into the wall of his new single dad
apartment. Behind the hole is – nothing. The seemingly fragile American wall structure
appears as a fake to the North European viewer, like as if the stage design has just been
destroyed.
A reversed way of breaking the fourth wall through breaking the back wall? We
are in this annoying divorce together now. In the case of the gallery the hole appears as a
trace, the legacy of the artist who, at least once, has been present.(...)
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Text: Pia-Marie Remmers
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Gallery VINVIN
Hintzerstrasse 4/1
1030 Vienna
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