Magic Tricks

ARTISTS:
Tobias Dostal, Ariel Schlesinger

13 August 2014
insitu, Berlin

The one night only event, «Magic Tricks» is marking the very first collaboration between the Berlin based artists Tobias Dostal and Ariel Schlesinger. Especially developed for the Project Space Festival, the artists will focus on their shared conceptual interests: the fascination for moments of deception and illusion.

In his installations and drawings, Tobias Dostal deals with the magic of cinematography. He works to rid the film medium of its classic canvas by restaging it in a space with sculptural elements.The work of Ariel Schlesinger makes playful, occasionally kinetic and often threatening sculptures, which seem to be as much the work of an unhinged inventor as that of a post-conceptual artist. He blurs the line between outsider inventor and studio-bound artist.

CURATORS:
Marie Graftieaux, Nora Mayr, Lauren Reid (as insitu)

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magictricks_2Project Space Festival, Day 13: «Magic Tricks», Ariel Schlesinger and Tobias Dostal (2014). Photos: Sarah Kouhou.