Through works that are both funny and disturbing, Werner Reiterer re-examines reality. Using objects for other than their intended purposes, the artist features word games, time shifts and fictional derivatives that can translate into multiple interpretations.

Werner Reiterer’s work evolves on the edge of the nonsensical, playing on the close proximity between art and life. He enjoys questioning the literal representations of what we consider to be real. His seductive sculptures blend art and humor while his drawings push fantasy to an absurd level; he scrambles everyday reality.
Garbling the relationship between language and image, he manages to change our perception of the piece and re-affirms, in a way that is both amusing and enlightening, that art has the power to change our perception of the world.

Reference: «Textes» de Julien Robson, Éditions Loevenbruck, Paris, 2009

Project

Werner Reiterer presents an intense, luminous projection which emanates from a window in the exhibition space of the Biennale Montreal 2011, as well as shines under the door of one of the exhibition rooms. This glowing space is called «Où Dieu Habite / Where God Lives» and is visible from the exterior of the building where it gives the illusion to spectators and passersby that that god has established a home in the exhibition space. Here the artist incorporates notions of the absolute, of infinity and the necessity of the idea of chance. Nietzsche comes to the rescue in suggesting that god would have made the choice of research of preference to that of possession. He could have preferred the error and wandering, and even done it for pleasure.

Where God lives, 2011
Light
Variable dimensions
Courtesy : Galerie Krinzinger, Vienne, Autriche
Photo : BNL MTL 2011 / Ludovic Beillard

Links

Lovenbruck Gallery
Galerie Krinziger