Jacob Dahlgren sat within his metal pink sculpture

 at Stephaneum, Bad Goisern, Austria
Curated by: Gottfried Hattinger
European Capital of Culture Bad Ischl Salzkammergut 2024

Traditional craftsmanship is particularly cultivated in Bad Goisern. ANALOG! explores this tradition with contemporary artistic references. In our digitalised, electrified world, we are looking for profound artistic strategies to slow down the pace and present grounded counter-models – a haptic cosmos in contrast to the virtual one.


Collaboration Carl Kleiner & Jacob Dahlgren

The idea that events and human experiences can be captured and embedded in the objects that populate a place transcends the boundaries of what we call reality. Yet most people have experienced something like this phenomenon. Dahlgren and Kleiner use abandoned elements to weave a living archive of the history of place. These delicate representations carefully decipher the traces visible in the fragmented state of the school. The unobtrusive fragments, which convey a new narrative in their new context, emphasise the power of their documentary contribution to the project.

They invite us, the viewers, to engage with something that goes beyond verbal articulation; they shift the narrative to a physical level in space. The sculptural figures each carry a piece of the site's mosaic, accomplishing the remarkable artistic feat of eliciting new meaning from materials shrouded in the haze of history. The concrete systems cast clear shadows of the light that once animated this place.

https://www.salzkammergut-2024.at/en/projekte/analog-2/

A sculpture by Jacob Dahlgren of a stack of wooden and painted red metal chairs

A sculpture by Jacob Dahlgren of a stack of wooden chairs

A sculpture by Jacob Dahlgren of a series of fluorescent tubes propped against the wall creating the illusion of a wave

ANALOG! at Stephaneum, curated by Gottfried Hattinger, presents contemporary art interwoven with traditional craftsmanship. Featuring Carl Kleiner & Jacob Dahlgren, the exhibition uses abandoned elements to create a living archive of place, offering a tactile counterpoint to our digital world.

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