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| Thomas Feuerstein, Pancreas (Alles Fleish), 2009-2012, installation: steel, glass, glial cells, bacteria and technical devices, Image Courtesy of the Gallery |
Next week, Berlin-based 401 Contemporary, one of the galleries participating in Art Brussels 2013 (Booth 3D-38), is inaugurating a solo exhibition entitled CANDYLAB by Austrian-born Vienna-based artist Thomas Feuerstein.
For CANDYLAB, Feuerstein, 45, is creating a setting that is part Viennese apartment and part laboratory.
A mix of Art Nouveau furniture and bio-reactors evokes associations with eating, reading, digestion and writing. At the heart of the exhibition, is the process-sculpture Pancreas, which gives bodily form to the books through bio-technical means.
The examination of language as written text or spoken word forms the basis of Feuerstein’s works, which consist of translations, transformations and processes. His works incorporate both information and biotechnology to form communicating vessels and narrative networks made in a variety of media, including drawing, sculpture, painting, photography, video, audio dramas and Internet art.
Essential ingredients are the connection between linguistic and visual elements, the tracing of latent links between fact and fiction and the interlacing of art and science.
Feuerstein was born in Innsbruck and studied art history and philosophy from 1987 to 1995 at the University of Innsbruck.