Florian Meisenberg

Alternate Titles

• Somewhere sideways down at an angle but very close

Description

Florian Meisenberg (b. Berlin, 1980; lives and works in Brooklyn, New York) trained as a media designer before studying painting at the Düsseldorf Academy of Arts with Peter Doig starting in 2004; he is now a student in Doig's master class. So making art in the form of websites and videos, drawings and books, installations and performances comes naturally to him. And yet Meisenberg feels that painting is the foundation of his oeuvre and indeed his entire existence. He paints not only on preprimed canvases stretched on frames, but also on colorful fabric remnants, dishtowels, and bed sheets, which he hangs loosely on the wall or arranges as flags. He feels the constant temptation to try and overcome the classical idea of painting, to experiment and transgress boundaries. This book presents Meisenberg's most recent paintings and new video works. It is important to note that he regards the digital desktop as a no less worthy equivalent to the painted canvas. The new video collages with their superimposed images, he says, constitute a novel animated painting in which the motifs travel through space and time.

Description

Several printers mounted beneath the gallery's ceiling tirelessly spit out sheets that slowly glide to the floor and stay where they land. For his project 'Somewhere sideways, down, at an angle, but very close', Florian Meisenberg (b. Berlin, 1980; lives and works in New York) invited friends, artists, and curators to send pictures and messages to the printers. His paintings often render digital motifs; his videos, by contrast, present an analog material reality. In the exhibition space, the participants' ephemeral digital transmissions suddenly gain physical and tangible presence, adding an unwonted new dimension to Meisenberg's work. The artist eventually collected all sheets; this book is his idiosyncratic presentation of a sample from the output. Far from a linear documentation of the project, it expands on it, transforming it into a brilliant work of printed matter that is a must-have for any Florian Meisenberg fan. It comes with an Augmented Reality app that lets the user translate all posts into sound and experience the choreography of images in the space-time fabric of the book.

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Other Editions

• Florian Meisenberg: somewhere sideways down at an angle but very closeDistanz2018-01-01
• httpDistanz Verlag2014-01-01