ANDREAS ZINGERLE | ENERGY SAVING

Galerie Rolando Anselmi is pleased to present Saving Energy, the second solo exhibition in its space by Andreas Zingerle. In this occasion the artist will present an installation composed by a series of concrete sculptures realized between 2006 and 2013 and presented for the first time together in Berlin. They depict everyday objects such as shoes, t-shirts, lamps or item of clothing that the artist manipulates and reshapes, working in the boundary between abstraction and representation. Zingerle freezes in its white cement casts, images linked to the current dominant issues of energy saving and scarcity of resources. He leads to a rethinking on the consumption and production of everyday objects, without ever giving up a tip of artistic-ironic detachment. Starting point is the typical U-shaped tube of the basic saving energy lamp's extremity, which we find again in the hybridization of some of these otherwise familiar objects. Zingerle sculptural qualities are reflected in the tactile surface of these absurd objects, which despite the severity of the composition and the formal accuracy that characterize his works, they do not renounce to stage an essential uncertainty, a distance that makes them accessible through the multifaceted language of art. The main interest of Zingerle resides in the iconography of everyday life. His aim is to overcome the anesthetizing process of social structures bringing the viewer back to the purity of its representation.  In that sense, instead of highlighting the insignificance and pettiness of the objects of daily use, he succeeds in giving them an artistic dignity back. His work focuses on the double and parallel nature of reality, redefining it with simple and clear notions. The physicality of his sculptures appears in dramatic contrast with the flowing and flexible materials of the original objects, underlining the paradoxical tension between presence and absence, the duplicity of original and copy.