Press Archive 1991

"Istruzioni Generali", Wolf Sakowski, Galerie am Theater, Fürth, Bavaria, 13.04. – 05.06.1991

[Wolf Sakowski]

Fürther Nachrichten, 1991, VOLKER DITTMAR

In the wake of technology

Galerie am Theater exhibits for the first time new picture constructions by Wolf Sakowski

Artist Wolfgang Sakowski from Nuremberg, who is best known for his constructed objects, provides a substantial contribution of critical analysis to our high-tech present with pictures and drawings that are to see in the Galerie am Theater until 5 June. Not only passionate constructors are stunned by his large “Instructions”, they are also a great mind game.

Sakowski’s works are particularly fascinating not least because they are unsentimental. Their basis is the sober laws of the Technology not diffuse feelings. The 41-year-old one from Nuremberg avoids all superfluous decoration and confined himself to the basics. That his paintings aren't of a simple effect is due to the imaginary value of the work, what they briskly are showing.

The artist is winner of the Förderpreis and David-Lauber-Preis of the City of Nuremberg. He mediates with his design sketches from the world of modelling impulses for the construction of an artificial reality. Deliberately uses Sakowski set pieces, which are trivial. He draws attention to oversimplification of the worldview of our time. The sketches are connected only seemingly. These pseudo-logical thought patterns are uncontrollable.

Wolf Sakowski, who recently defied Technology in Autohaus Pillenstein, was animating there the spectators to make an image of our over stimulated environment but which is without meaning, merely through unmasking of the base as such. Finally, there only remains a grotesque skeleton in unsuccessful attempts of understanding the world. The art objects, which he made in the past, are open for solid arguments. His paintings and drawings are going one step further, in terms of abstraction. In his “General Instructions” he brings up principles for discussion – wholly in the sense of his believes: “It’s really just a very fine line between randomness and ambiguity.”