Via Lewandowsky, English Edition

Everyone knows that Via Lewandowsky (born 1963) participated in documenta IX in 1992, and perhaps some are familiar with his work commissioned by the German Ministry of Defense, anaerial view of Berlin showing the devastation of World War Two. Yetthe fact that, during the past five years, he has put together unusual exhibitions that join art and science is something that has gone largely unnoticed on the art scene.
Against the backdrop of these experiences, the artist's most recent works are devoted tothe supposed irrationality of ordinary logic. Lewandowsky devises complicated installations that are often determined, down to the smallest detail, by irony and deception, often examining the idiosyncrasies of the German language and its visual interpretations. For example, the German word Schrankwand (wallunit) becomes an object in which a wall and a cupboard penetrate each other anda door in the wall stands half-open in the cupboard.Paeninsularde constructs the word Halbinsel, which literally means half-island. Such terms are the starting point of Lewandowsky's exploration of the meaning of words and of visual language to invent unusual spaces and objects that take us to other worlds.

Exhibitionschedule: Neuer Berliner Kunstverein September, Berlin, October 2.-15.2006