Double Trouble

Double Trouble means double trouble. A promising title. A title does not stand alone, but is always an indication of the content of the program or, in this case, the exhibition. We can therefore look forward to an exciting and exciting exhibition. In which two artists, Julia Frank & Karin Welponer, meet, perhaps also two views of art. But certainly a deep examination of the work of the person in question. The core of Julia Frank's contribution is an approximately 10-minute video portrait about Karin Welponer. In terms of content, Julia Frank describes this work as a narrative journey that begins in the past and extends to the present. Karin Welponer's multi-part photo works also have key points or cores. These are “tree fragments” or “tree details”. Here the artist declares visible injuries and their healing, as well as overgrowths, to be works of art. Seen in this way, this exhibition is a hike, perhaps even a journey, that plays with changes, inversions and allusions. Julia Frank's iconic coat stand by the Thonet brothers is alienated and changed, its original purpose and form removed and filled with new content and new form. Here too, a starting point and a reference to the tree pictures and the milled wooden objects by Karin Welponer. These are, among other things, shapes created by bark beetles. The paths of the bark beetles, which mean certain death for a weakened tree, are declared a beautiful form, a work of art. Accordingly, Double Trouble is actually a fine discussion and a “complementation” with the work and the opinions of the other person. Trouble also stands for the word worry. Double worry. The exhibition can perhaps also be read as a careful and careful interaction and relationship.