About the exhibition
Kai Philip Trausenegger
Super AMOLED
Smolka Contemporary is proud to present Kai Philip Trausenegger’s first solo exhibition Super AMOLED in the gallery space at Lobkowitzplatz 3 in Vienna.
Kai Philip Trausenegger’s work focuses heavily on rituals of the art world and the spiritual role of artistic production in society. While being concerned with the constant charging and discharging of objects, a layer of historicism is cast over the formal praxis of the artist. With the use of state-of-the-art precision production techniques like laser-cutting and 3D printing, existing classical forms, shapes and symbols are re-interpreted and transformed into contemporary artefacts.
Super AMOLED specifically spotlights the feelings of guilt, shame and cleansing within the commodities of art combined with technological advancement as a driving factor.
The title serves as a direct reference to the screen technology used in specific smartphones, which allows for excellent colour and contrast brilliance through active-matrix organic light-emitting diodes. It becomes a metaphor for enlightenment and the creation of epiphanies.
Photos (c) Kaja Clara Joo and Manuel Carreon Lopez