July 21, 2017
Echo Point, hoast, Vienna, AT
with Vasco Costa

Opening: Friday, the July 21,  2017, 7 pm at hoast, Vienna

In summer 2016, Vasco Costa and Wolfgang Obermair had the opportunity to work together in Seyðisfjörður on projects related to the specific social environment of the village in the north-east of Iceland. Through sculptures, performances and videos they explored the history and cultural potential of a former fish factory owned by Sigurbergur and Þorgeir Sigurðsson. The brothers are passionate art lovers, fishermen, poets, farmers, car collectors and experts on concrete and construction works. The hosting space was undergoing a revolutionary transformation of function, which was recently revitalized by the Czech artist Monika Fryčová into an artist-in-residence project with the name Blue Factory. At their exhibition ECHO POINT at hoast, Vasco and Wolfgang returned to the material they had collected, using it as a starting point for a series of new works.

hoast
Costa / Obermair

Solving Engine Mountain
Working cloth, drawing on venetian blinds
2017

Echopoint
2-channel HD Video
Installation
2017

Wolfgang Obermair Dresdner Strasse 46/10 1200 Vienna / Austria