Karo Kuchar
Ephemeral air chamber, 2022
Residences Art Explora x Artagon
To coincide with the transformation of Hangar Y into a cultural and events venue, 10 young, recently graduated artists have been invited by Art Explora and Artagon to reuse materials from the hangar's construction site to create works of art, during a residency in September 2022.
Karo Kuchar
Ephemeral air chamber, 2022
Copper, wall surfaces on organza, canvas, fabric from an old paraglider, pvc, foam, fan, approx. 3.5 x 2.5 x 3 m
Description of the work
Artist Karo Kuchar's artistic practice is based on the idea of a symbiosis between body and space. She is interested in the various concepts of the skin as envelope, the envelope as second skin, and the body as architecture.
While she is accustomed to using fabric to capture the imprint of old buildings as a way of capturing this layer of bare walls, here the artist seizes on it by transforming it into a building material.
Here, the artist uses fabric as a building material to erect a structure of ambivalent form, which protects and welcomes visitors as much as it seems able to escape them. A set of fans animates this ensemble, evoking both a parachute and a living organic form. Wind, the essential driving force behind the aircraft that used to inhabit the Hangar, becomes here an invisible force that can only be seen through the effects it has on matter.
Starting with the discovery of the role played by the women who once assembled the canvas of airships, the enveloping installation becomes a monument to this little-documented work and its lack of visibility in the history of aeronautics.
Artist biography
Karo Kuchar is an Austrian artist who lives and works between Vienna (Austria) and Paris (France). She graduated fromAcadémie des Beaux-Arts in Vienna in 2021.
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