Unsichtbar #58
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"Blinde können das nicht lesen" (blind people can not read this) Stainless-steel, lacquer, rockkristall. On rockkristall is very flat engraved the words of the title. Photo by Petra Zimmermann.
Location:
Galerie Isabella Hund
Frauenplatz 13, Munich
26.02.2016 – 18.03.2016, Tue-Fri 11:00-14:00,15:00-19:00, Sat 11:00-16:00/18:00
Artist:
Peter Skubic
The title of the exhibition at Galerie Isabella Hund is "unsichtbar" (invisible) and most of the pieces are made with highly shiny surfaces, such as mirrors, which are the same as invisible to Peter Skubic. He plays with words in his work like“Nothing”, "NIX DAHINTER" (nothing behind there) and "WENIGER ALS NICHTS" (less then nothing).
"LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS IN THE WORLD. In the beginning there was the "BIG BANG;" that was also the theme for the students in Marc Monzo’s summer workshop at the Academy in Salzburg.
After nearly 14 billion years I started to make jewelry with my own ideas. At this time I was 34 years old. But what are my own ideas? I had to develop this.
What came next during this time when I was young? EROTICISM! To start jewellery with erotic forms - phalluses, vaginas, boobs - in very abstract manners, was the result. I was not trained to make jewellery, so I had to find out how to make these and others forms in my own way. I become an inventor.
The next theme after some years was TENSION. It was a reflection of my life at this time. It was a time full of problems, and I worked them out with my creations. And it became a better time. Bigger dimensions were now possible and I worked with jewellery and sculptures in the same way. My material was not just gold and silver but iron and stainless-steel.
Around the year 2000 or a little earlier, I found out that had a great fascination for MIRRORS. First: mirrors are invisible; second, mirrors turn the world. Reflection looks like reality but it is not exist. And I learned a lot about what reflection means and how I can use it. In this time I also created painted pedestals for invisible jewllery that did not exist. Very funny!
Then, in times between making things I curated some big exhibitions and a symposium in cooperation with the Austrian steel-corporation, as well as many solo-exhibitions all over the world.
My pieces are in more then thirty-eight museum collections, and are printed in books and catalogues. I was also teaching, giving workshops and so on.
And I like to cook.
Making things, jewellery and sculpture, and making the drawings before, are wonderful things in my life and also a way to communicate with people."
Peter Skubic, 28th January 2016
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"Nix dahinter" (nothing behind) stainless-steel 83 x 68 mm there is nothing behind the steel-plate, different as in the first piece. Photo by Petra Zimmermann.
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stainless-steel, silver 75 x 54 mm influenced by pill-container. I had to eat a lot of pills last year. Photo by Petra Zimmermann.
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stainless-steel, silver 75 x 54 mm influenced by pill-container. I had to eat a lot of pills last year. Photo by Petra Zimmermann.
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"Blinde können das nicht lesen" (blind people can not read this) Stainless-steel, lacquer, rockkristall. On rockkristall is very flat engraved the words of the title. Photo by Petra Zimmermann.
Location:
Galerie Isabella Hund
Frauenplatz 13, Munich
26.02.2016 – 18.03.2016, Tue-Fri 11:00-14:00,15:00-19:00, Sat 11:00-16:00/18:00
Artist:
Peter Skubic
The title of the exhibition at Galerie Isabella Hund is "unsichtbar" (invisible) and most of the pieces are made with highly shiny surfaces, such as mirrors, which are the same as invisible to Peter Skubic. He plays with words in his work like“Nothing”, "NIX DAHINTER" (nothing behind there) and "WENIGER ALS NICHTS" (less then nothing).
"LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS IN THE WORLD. In the beginning there was the "BIG BANG;" that was also the theme for the students in Marc Monzo’s summer workshop at the Academy in Salzburg.
After nearly 14 billion years I started to make jewelry with my own ideas. At this time I was 34 years old. But what are my own ideas? I had to develop this.
What came next during this time when I was young? EROTICISM! To start jewellery with erotic forms - phalluses, vaginas, boobs - in very abstract manners, was the result. I was not trained to make jewellery, so I had to find out how to make these and others forms in my own way. I become an inventor.
The next theme after some years was TENSION. It was a reflection of my life at this time. It was a time full of problems, and I worked them out with my creations. And it became a better time. Bigger dimensions were now possible and I worked with jewellery and sculptures in the same way. My material was not just gold and silver but iron and stainless-steel.
Around the year 2000 or a little earlier, I found out that had a great fascination for MIRRORS. First: mirrors are invisible; second, mirrors turn the world. Reflection looks like reality but it is not exist. And I learned a lot about what reflection means and how I can use it. In this time I also created painted pedestals for invisible jewllery that did not exist. Very funny!
Then, in times between making things I curated some big exhibitions and a symposium in cooperation with the Austrian steel-corporation, as well as many solo-exhibitions all over the world.
My pieces are in more then thirty-eight museum collections, and are printed in books and catalogues. I was also teaching, giving workshops and so on.
And I like to cook.
Making things, jewellery and sculpture, and making the drawings before, are wonderful things in my life and also a way to communicate with people."
Peter Skubic, 28th January 2016
"Nix dahinter" (nothing behind) stainless-steel 83 x 68 mm there is nothing behind the steel-plate, different as in the first piece. Photo by Petra Zimmermann.
stainless-steel, silver 75 x 54 mm influenced by pill-container. I had to eat a lot of pills last year. Photo by Petra Zimmermann.
stainless-steel, silver 75 x 54 mm influenced by pill-container. I had to eat a lot of pills last year. Photo by Petra Zimmermann.
