Wolfgang Obermair & Vasco Costa
Opening: Friday, the 21st July 2017, 7 pm at hoast, Vienna
In summer 2016 Vasco Costa and Wolfgang Obermair had the opportunity to work together in Seyðisfjörður on projects related to the specific social environment of the village in the north-east of Iceland. Through sculptures, performances and videos they explored the history and cultural potential of a former fish factory owned by Sigurbergur and Þorgeir Sigurðsson. The brothers are passionated art lovers, fishermen, poets, farmers, car collectors and experts on concrete and construction works. The hosting space was passing a revolutionary transformation of function, that was recently revitalized by the Czech artist Monika Fryčová into an artist in residence project with the name Blue Factory.
At their exhibition at hoast Vasco and Wolfgang got back to the material they collected, to use it as a starting point for a series of new works.
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SOLVING ENGINE MOUNTAIN, working cloth, drawing on venetian
blinds, 260 x 140 cm, 2017
KEEP SMELLING FISH, electric iron, iron cup, concrete, tar, 2017 
ECHO POINT, HD 2 channel synched video, projection and screen, 16 min, 2017 
THROUGH THE WORKING GLASS, shovel, sand, glas, light spot, 2017 
ALWAYS THE SUN, folded PVC banners, light spot, 240 x 100 cm 2017