Percolated / Accelerated (Leisure) Pursuit &

A Master of Reduction and Reflection

Gerwald Rockenschaub (b. Linz, 1952; lives and works in Berlin), one of the most renowned Austrians on the international art scene, is also a musician and DJ. His work has been associated with the Neo-Geo movement, also known as the new geometricism, which arose in the early 1980 and championed a turn toward geometric abstraction and rationality in art. Rockenschaub's expansive installations--prominent presentations have included the...
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A Master of Reduction and Reflection

Gerwald Rockenschaub (b. Linz, 1952; lives and works in Berlin), one of the most renowned Austrians on the international art scene, is also a musician and DJ. His work has been associated with the Neo-Geo movement, also known as the new geometricism, which arose in the early 1980 and championed a turn toward geometric abstraction and rationality in art. Rockenschaub's expansive installations--prominent presentations have included the Austrian pavilion at the 1993 Venice Biennale and a show at the Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, in 2005--read as minimalist objects while also drawing attention to the conditions shaping the display of contemporary art. The animations, foil pictures, and objects engage their settings in a playful dialogue; using acrylic glass surfaces, the artist always integrates the viewers' reflections into the ensembles. Rockenschaub himself has described it as "funky minimalism," a term that also gestures toward his background in music and the sampling of artistic genres.

The publication percolated / accelerated (leisure) pursuit & documents the artist's extensive oeuvre and his exhibitions over the past eleven years. Scanning a barcode provides access to acoustic pieces by Rockenschaub that form a soundtrack accompanying the publication.