Wolfgang Matuschek at Sperling, Munich

This entire series includes 15 images.

Each image emerges after the previous one or before the next. Together they form a chronological chain. They send and receive at the same time and thus communicate with each other. They also discuss their questions and outline ideas. Shortcuts, secret routes or elevators form a network of relations. This allows them to change location and remain flexible. Since they are not all on the same floor, they cannot see each other at the same time because some are higher and others lower. But it doesn’t matter to them because they know where they are.

The exhibition Pizza, Taxi, Radio shows a selection of them.

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Born in Vienna in 1989, Wolfgang Matuschek studied architecture at the Vienna University of Technology (2015), Sculpture at Escola Superior de Belas do Porto (2016), and painting at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (2018). Recent solo and group exhibitions include KAI 10 Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf (2024), ROH Projects, Jakarta (2024), Crèvecœur, Paris (2023), Harkawik, New York (2022), ACK, Kyoto (2022), soft power, Berlin (2022), Hoast, Vienna (2021), Gomo, Vienna (2020), 4649, Tokyo (2019), Berlinskej Model, Prag (2019), White Dwarf Projects, Vienna (2018), Palacete Pinto Leite, Porto (2016).

Matuschek creates wonderfully imaginative drawings of fantastic geometries, often near monochrome but with such rich depth of color as to make them feel real nonetheless. Many of his drawings engage with the notion of spatial framing, with unconventional perspectives, comic book style bordering, and foreground obstruction or cropping of the central image all confronting the viewer with the artifice of his otherwise bewitching worlds.