Peter Senoner
Corpus matic
25.09. – 06.11.2016

In a precisely planned spatial installation, Peter Senoner is showing a selection of his sculptural and graphic works at the Kunstverein Bremerhaven, most of which were created in the last two years. In addition to classical sculpture, drawing, but also animated films, staged photography and interaction in public spaces are essential forms of his artistic exploration. Senoner was born in Bolzano (Italy) in 1970 and lives and works in Bolzano and Berlin.

The exhibition title “CORPUS matic” refers to the artificial, machine-like body as a central research object in Senoner’s work, a theme that he has pursued for years and that runs like a thread through his work. When Senoner is sculptural, he always first works on his often life-sized sculptures in the classical sculptor’s manner with wood. Only in a second step does he cast his figures in aluminum or realize them in white, baked-on bronze, like LEM, one of his large sculptures, which will be on display in the exhibition, among other places. Senoner’s sculptures seem like beings from a distant galaxy, and at the same time refer to various cultural, aesthetic, historical and media contexts. A narrative moment unfolds with the expressivity of movements and surfaces, whereby Senoner is increasingly concerned with exploring the beauty of the body in its vulnerability, which he has recently experimented with through perforations and fragmentations.

Drawing, as an essential part of Peter Senoner’s artistic work, has taken on an important key function, especially in recent years, because it offers him the opportunity to continually develop new artistic approaches, which ultimately manifest themselves in the sculptural works. In the exhibition at the Kunstverein Bremerhaven, a room will be dedicated exclusively to this medium. After years, Senoner is now returning to working on the living model, overlaying body shapes in motion in a process that lasts for hours and in obsessively repeated processing.

For Senoner, drawing is not only to be imagined as a framed picture hanging on the wall, but also as a large-format work that fills the space as an installation, which is complemented by a sculpture that is also positioned as an installation, or in the form of an animated film presented as a projection. Here in Bremerhaven, the artist is showing his recently completed film, which was made during his work stay in Detroit this summer. The idea of ​​the transformation of bodies that is fundamental to Senoner’s work is made clear in his exhibition projects, as his creations, which are made in different media, relate to one another as if in a network of media connections.

Dr. Sabine Gamper

Curated by Thomas Trümper.