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Artist Statement:
GRAF+ZYX : MUSEUM OF PRIVATE
ARTS
Already in the late 1970s
GRAF+ZYX committed themselves
to the „aestheticisation of
everyday life“ in all fields
of a cross-culture. Their
works with video, computer,
laser, web design and
programming, photography,
graphic design, video
sculpture, and music are
visually influenced by Pop
Art, Constructivism, Futurism,
Dadaism and contemporary
design, and musically rooted
in Beat and Electronic Rock of
the 60s and 70s, Free Jazz and
classical modern music,
whereas the lyrics in English
– always composed and
interpreted by GRAF+ZYX
themselves – resemble obscure,
existentialist dialogues. When
required, voice modulation
transforms the lyrics into a
linguistically indefinable
echoism.
Their conceptual approach and
their theoretical texts on
their intermedia works can
also be understood from these
universal aspects. Beauty next
to ugliness and complex
sophisticated constructions
next to stereotypical
simplicity, in peaceful
co-existence. An
intellectually harsh phrase
next to an aesthetically
disorientating, exuberant
emotionality to the point of a
„comix“, which is directed at
unsettling the audience in
general. As soon as the viewer
believes in having fully
grasped the artistic intention
and relaxes in the certainty
of his observation, another
subliminally delivered cynical
phrasing is guaranteed to foil
this idyll.
GRAF+ZYX ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
Einzelausstellungen
2006 Itwasn’tUs – dead links.
Computerzeichnung, Fotografie,
Musikvideo, Installation, Text
und Projektion auf das
»Kinetische Luftobjekt
unddiezeit V.1.0. 1 / 1 2 3 4
aus 1000 Variationen aus dem
Leben eines Lüfters.
Installation mit Video, Musik,
Bildern und »Kinetischem
Luftobjekt Wien
1991 Raumkonstruktion.
Musikgesteuertes Laserobjekt –
Kunst am...
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Artist Galleries:
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Artist Reviews:
2007 Sebastian Fasthuber:
Trust no Woman plus. 31/07.
(Hg.) Falter-Verlag > Wien
2007 Gerhard Stöger: Mysterium
ZYX. Datum 9 / 2007, Print-
und Webversion > Wien
2007 Christa Benzer: Im blauen
Licht der Vor-Computerzeit:
Zum ersten Teil der
DVD-Kompilation "Nomaden der
Zeit" von transmitter-x.org.
Band XII, ...
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Collections:
Artothek - BMUKK - Wien, AT
(Videoobjects, Video)
Stadt Wien - Wien, AT
(Paintings)
Emco Maier GmbH, Hallein, AT
(Laser Object)
Tiroler Landesmuseum,
Innsbruck, AT (Videoobjects)
Secession, Wien, AT (Music,
Video, Photography)
Sammlung der Universität für
angewandte Kunst in Wien,
Wien, AT (Video, Drawing,
Music)
Kunstverein Zürich, (Video]
Zürich, ...
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Commissions:
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Graf - Zyx Biography:
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GRAF+ZYX
Have worked together exclusively on projects and exhibitions since 1980 as GRAF+ZYX: MEDIENSYNTHETISCHE PROGRAMME; GRAF+ZYX live and work in Vienna and Lower Austria.
GRAF
Studied political sciences and journalism at the University of Vienna; also studied in the Photography and Film Department at the University of Applied Art in Vienna under Oswald Oberhuber.
ZYX
Trained in cuMarcical violin in Vienna and Indian music at the Istituto Canneti, Italy (Dilruba at Acharya Manfred Junius); also studied psychology and philosophy at the University of Vienna. Electronic music and music production.
GRAF+ZYX : MUSEUM OF PRIVATE ARTS
Already in the late 1970s GRAF+ZYX committed themselves to the „aestheticisation of everyday life“ in all fields of a cross-culture. Their works with video, computer, laser, web design and programming, photography, graphic design, video sculpture, and music are visually influenced by Pop Art, Constructivism, Futurism, Dadaism and contemporary design, and musically rooted in Beat and Electronic Rock of the 60s and 70s, Free Jazz and classical modern music, whereas the lyrics in English – always composed and interpreted by GRAF+ZYX themselves – resemble obscure, existentialist dialogues. When required, voice modulation transforms the lyrics into a linguistically indefinable echoism.
Their conceptual approach and their theoretical texts on their intermedia works can also be understood from these universal aspects. Beauty next to ugliness and complex sophisticated constructions next to stereotypical simplicity, in peaceful co-existence. An intellectually harsh phrase next to an aesthetically disorientating, exuberant emotionality to the point of a „comix“, which is directed at unsettling the audience in general. As soon as the viewer believes in having fully grasped the artistic intention and relaxes in the certainty of his observation, another subliminally delivered cynical phrasing is guaranteed to foil this idyll.
GRAF+ZYX want to have their artistic as well as their commercial productions understood as a personal signpost of their dissociation from human nature at large and as a subversive criticism on seemingly collectively trusted ways of thinking and character codes. Moreover, they want to have them seen as an all-integrating interpretation transcending media and space, as an aesthetic if all the same ephemeral statement on an »unutterable«, intellectually and emotionally diverging whole.
In addition to the production of tapes, records and video clips as well as advertising, from 1982 onwards they began to develop their own »media synthetic programmes« especially for the display in art exhibitions. These multi- and intermedia audiovisual compositions were staged in form of tape-concerts, multiple stacked projections [S-8 movies] or video clip projections, and extended by live dance performance or pieces of their own art production – pictures and objects. From 1984 onwards they presented their move towards the design of space and its electronic arrangement as »electronic architecture« or »electrodynamic space design« in exhibitions and in broadcastings of the ORF (public Austrian TV and radio channel) to the public.
Awards
1991 Großer Preis der Stadt Wien für Projektkunst
1985 Albert Paris Gütersloh Preis der Hochschule für angewandte Kunst in Wien (für den Videoclip »step/4 to electronic futurism«)
1984 Clio Awards (original music scoring), New York (für Musik zu Peter Weibels »johnny filter«)
Honors - Advancements
2008 Poor Cat : Webclip (Musikvideo) added to the Rhizome ArtBase
2005 Nominierung von Hey You V.2.0 (Musikvideoclip) zum Viper International Award (2006)
1986 Auftragsarbeit (Video) für ArsElectronica ’86 »Achtung! Raum-Kontrolle.
1986 Das Bild vom Ich, Perspective ’86. Förderprogramm Art Basel | Galerie Grita Insam
1983 Förderprogramm. Kunstmesse Köln | Galerie Grita Insam
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