GÆG
How Humans Adapt
15 February – 31 March 2017
immobilie, 2014 (left) foam core, wood, steel, glass, paint fraus caerulea, 2004 (middle) mixed media on wood immobilie im bodden, 2017 (right) photo print on glass
talschluss, 2012 photo print on glass
fraus caerulea, 2004 (left) mixed media on wood immobilie im bodden, 2017 (right) photo print on glass
how humans adapt, 2016 (left) photo print on glass immobilie im bodden, 2017 (right) photo print on glass
immobilie, 2014 (left) foam core, wood, steel, glass, paint fraus caerulea, 2004 (middle) mixed media on wood immobilie im bodden, 2017 (right) photo print on glass
immobilie, 2014 foam core, wood, steel, glass, paint
swing modell, 2004 mixed media
windrad, 2013 steel, epoxy resin, dynamo generator
how humans adapt, 2016 photo print on glass
swing modell, 2004 mixed media
freistaat map, 2016 ball point pen on print
talschluss, 2012 (left) photo print on glass querung, 2012 (right) photo print on glass
swing modell, 2004 mixed media
freistaat ball point pen, 2017 (in front) epoxy resin, steel freistaat map, 2016 (behind) ball point pen on print freistaat sketches, 2016 (right) graphite on paper
freistaat sketches, 2016 graphite on paper
pegasus modell, 2009 epoxy resin, metal, plastic
swing modell, 2004 mixed media
gate, 2014 photo print on glass
sisy mit olperer, 2012 (right) photo print on glass talschluss, 2012 (left) photo print on glass
sisy mit olperer, 2012 photo print on glass
fraus caerulea, 2004 (detail) mixed media on wood
immobilie, 2014 (left) foam core, wood, steel, glass, paint
fraus caerulea, 2004 mixed media on wood
immobilie im bodden, 2017 photo print on glass
LOVAAS is pleased to present How Humans Adapt. The action-based, interventionist art created by the collaborative GÆG, conceived by Wolfgang Aichner and Thomas Huber, awes with its raw physicality as well as the conceptual rigor of its performances. The exhibit features five actions (performances): Passages, Power Walk, Immobile, How Humans Adapt, and Freistaat documented through a tight selection of sculpture, video, drawing and photography.
In Passage2011, the project, inspired by Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo, consists of traversing the main divide of the Zillertal Alps with a self-built boat. The route, while physically and mentally demanding, is documented through a series of photographs. Photographs and video serve as an integral part of their practice as a form documentation of their neo-romantic effort. The monumental weathered green bench, moored for a week, almost absurdly stands in the midst of the gallery in a larger than life manner. Optically distorted by perspective of where the spectator stands, the park bench playfully draws on the concept of off-shore banking and thematically and visually serves as a central motive for their work.
The GÆG artists*, both personify an unusual combination of serious Bavarian mountaineer and working studio artist. What the artists lack in artifice they make up for in mischievous, Sisyphean hubris.
Thomas Huber and Wolfgang Aichner founded GÆG (global aesthetic genetics) in 2005. They conceived performance and sculptural based-projects such as tilia inflata (2005, Haar), inside (2008 Innsbruch) and colourful evening (2011, Munich). At the 54th Biennale di Venezia they were represented with their project passage 2011. The video work received the California Film Award. With powerwalk (2013, Iceland), real estate (2014, Ahrenshoop), as well as downtown (2015, Innsbruck) and how human adapt (2016, Edinburgh), Amongst others, they exhibited at the Ars Electronica Festival Linz, Osan Art Museum Seoul, Kunsthalle Emden, Hall 14 Leipzig and the National Gallery of Iceland in Reykjavik.