VANISH
PART THREE SHOWS
OLIVER KOSSACK
Check yourself before you wreck yourself
Oliver Kossack
[ sic ] humor
1967 geboren in Tel Aviv, lebt und arbeitet in Leipzig 1967 born in Tel Aviv, lives and works in Leipzig
Oliver Kossack lässt sich schwer in eine bestimmte künstlerische Kategorie einordnen. Denn er verfolgt bewusst einen Eklektizismus, der ihm Raum gibt, sich frei zwischen unterschiedlichen Kunststilen und Haltungen – vom abstrakten Expressionismus, Minimalismus, Bad Painting bis hin zu einer Punk-Trash-Ästhetik – zu bewegen. Kossacks Installationen, Malereien, Textarbeiten und Fotocollagen zitieren und kommentieren bekannte künstlerische Positionen und Diskurse und analysieren Ikonen der Moderne bzw. Postmoderne. Die Zitate sind jedoch nie eindeutig und werden durch skurrile Titel überzeichnet und fast ad absurdum geführt. Kossack thematisiert Erwartungen, die an ihn gestellt werden, er setzt sich aber auch generell mit der Rolle des Künstler-Seins innerhalb des Kunstbetriebs auseinander, ein Betrieb, der von unterschiedlichen Interessengruppen, nicht zuletzt vom Kunstmarkt dominiert wird. Durch die idiosynkratische Mischung von Gefühl und Rhetorik, nimmt Kossack die Position eines kritisch-ironischen Beobachters ein, gekoppelt mit dem Bewusstsein, selbst Teil des Systems zu sein.
Ilina Koralova, Kuratorin/Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig
It is difficult to pin Oliver Kossack down in a specific artistic category: For he consciously pursues an eclectic approach that allows him to move freely between different styles and strategies – from Ab Ex, Minimalism to Bad Painting and a punk trash-aesthetic. Analysing icons of modernism and post-modernism, Kossack's paintings, drawings and installations quote, comment and combine aspects of works by reputed artists and artistic discourses. Yet, his quotes are not straightforward and often, bizarre titles point towards new levels of idiosyncratic meaning. Kossack addresses expectations posited toward him as an artist, and the constitution of the artist's role within the art business, a world determined by different interest groups and ultimately by the market. Combining emotion and rhetoric, Kossack assumes the stance of a critical, ironic observer, although he is fully aware that he too is just part of the system.
Ilina Koralova, Curator/Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig
Knight Rider, a shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man who does not exist. Knight Rider, a young loner on a crusade to champion the cause of the innocent and the helpless in a world of criminals who operate above the law. One for all and all for one, musketeers are always ready. One for all and all for one, helping everybody. One for all and all for one, it's a pretty story. Sharing everything with fun, that's the way to be. One for all and all for one, musketeers are always ready. One for all and all for one, helping everybody. One for all and all for one, can sound pretty corny. If you've got a problem chum, think how it could be. Children of the sun, see your time has just begun, searching for your ways, through adventures every day. Every day and night, with the condor in flight, with all your friends in tow, you search for the Cities of Gold. Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah... wishing for The Cities of Gold. Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah... some day we will find The Cities of Gold. Do-do-do-do ah-ah-ah, do-do-do-do, Cities of Gold. Do-do-do-do, Cities of Gold. Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah... some day we will find The Cities of Gold. There's a voice that keeps on calling me. Down the road, that's where I'll always be. Every stop I make, I make a new friend. Can't stay for long, just turn around and I'm gone again. Maybe tomorrow, I'll want to settle down. Until tomorrow, I'll just keep moving on.
Mut, you snickering, floppy-eared hound. When courage is needed, you're never around. Those medals you wear on your moth-eaten chest should be there for bungling, at which you are best. So, stop that pigeon, stop that pigeon, stop that pigeon, stop that pigeon, stop that pigeon, stop that pigeon, stop that pigeon. Howwww? Nab him, jab him, tab him, grab him, stop that pigeon now! One for all and all for one, musketeers are always ready. One for all and all for one, helping everybody. One for all and all for one, it's a pretty story. Sharing everything with fun, that's the way to be. One for all and all for one, musketeers are always ready. One for all and all for one, helping everybody. One for all and all for one, can sound pretty corny. If you've got a problem chum, think how it could be. Ulysses, Ulysses - Soaring through all the galaxies. In search of Earth, flying in to the night.
Ulysses, Ulysses - Fighting evil and tyranny, with all his power, and with all of his might. Ulysses - no-one else can do the things you do. Ulysses - like a bolt of thunder from the blue. Ulysses - always fighting all the evil forces bringing peace and justice to all. Just the good ol' boys, never meanin' no harm. Beats all you've ever saw, been in trouble with the law since the day they was born. Straight'nin' the curve, flat'nin' the hills. Someday the mountain might get 'em, but the law never will. Makin' their way, the only way they know how, that's just a little bit more than the law will allow. Just good ol' boys, wouldn't change if they could, fightin' the system like a true modern day Robin Hood.
Ulysses, Ulysses - Soaring through all the galaxies. In search of Earth, flying in to the night. Ulysses, Ulysses - fighting evil and tyranny, with all his power, and with all of his might. Ulysses - no-one else can do the things you do. Ulysses - like a bolt of thunder from the blue. Ulysses - always fighting all the evil forces bringing peace and justice to all.
PART THREE SHOWS
OLIVER KOSSACK
Check yourself before you wreck yourself
Oliver Kossack
[ sic ] humor
1967 geboren in Tel Aviv, lebt und arbeitet in Leipzig 1967 born in Tel Aviv, lives and works in Leipzig
Oliver Kossack lässt sich schwer in eine bestimmte künstlerische Kategorie einordnen. Denn er verfolgt bewusst einen Eklektizismus, der ihm Raum gibt, sich frei zwischen unterschiedlichen Kunststilen und Haltungen – vom abstrakten Expressionismus, Minimalismus, Bad Painting bis hin zu einer Punk-Trash-Ästhetik – zu bewegen. Kossacks Installationen, Malereien, Textarbeiten und Fotocollagen zitieren und kommentieren bekannte künstlerische Positionen und Diskurse und analysieren Ikonen der Moderne bzw. Postmoderne. Die Zitate sind jedoch nie eindeutig und werden durch skurrile Titel überzeichnet und fast ad absurdum geführt. Kossack thematisiert Erwartungen, die an ihn gestellt werden, er setzt sich aber auch generell mit der Rolle des Künstler-Seins innerhalb des Kunstbetriebs auseinander, ein Betrieb, der von unterschiedlichen Interessengruppen, nicht zuletzt vom Kunstmarkt dominiert wird. Durch die idiosynkratische Mischung von Gefühl und Rhetorik, nimmt Kossack die Position eines kritisch-ironischen Beobachters ein, gekoppelt mit dem Bewusstsein, selbst Teil des Systems zu sein.
Ilina Koralova, Kuratorin/Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig
It is difficult to pin Oliver Kossack down in a specific artistic category: For he consciously pursues an eclectic approach that allows him to move freely between different styles and strategies – from Ab Ex, Minimalism to Bad Painting and a punk trash-aesthetic. Analysing icons of modernism and post-modernism, Kossack's paintings, drawings and installations quote, comment and combine aspects of works by reputed artists and artistic discourses. Yet, his quotes are not straightforward and often, bizarre titles point towards new levels of idiosyncratic meaning. Kossack addresses expectations posited toward him as an artist, and the constitution of the artist's role within the art business, a world determined by different interest groups and ultimately by the market. Combining emotion and rhetoric, Kossack assumes the stance of a critical, ironic observer, although he is fully aware that he too is just part of the system.
Ilina Koralova, Curator/Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig
Knight Rider, a shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man who does not exist. Knight Rider, a young loner on a crusade to champion the cause of the innocent and the helpless in a world of criminals who operate above the law. One for all and all for one, musketeers are always ready. One for all and all for one, helping everybody. One for all and all for one, it's a pretty story. Sharing everything with fun, that's the way to be. One for all and all for one, musketeers are always ready. One for all and all for one, helping everybody. One for all and all for one, can sound pretty corny. If you've got a problem chum, think how it could be. Children of the sun, see your time has just begun, searching for your ways, through adventures every day. Every day and night, with the condor in flight, with all your friends in tow, you search for the Cities of Gold. Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah... wishing for The Cities of Gold. Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah... some day we will find The Cities of Gold. Do-do-do-do ah-ah-ah, do-do-do-do, Cities of Gold. Do-do-do-do, Cities of Gold. Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah... some day we will find The Cities of Gold. There's a voice that keeps on calling me. Down the road, that's where I'll always be. Every stop I make, I make a new friend. Can't stay for long, just turn around and I'm gone again. Maybe tomorrow, I'll want to settle down. Until tomorrow, I'll just keep moving on.
Mut, you snickering, floppy-eared hound. When courage is needed, you're never around. Those medals you wear on your moth-eaten chest should be there for bungling, at which you are best. So, stop that pigeon, stop that pigeon, stop that pigeon, stop that pigeon, stop that pigeon, stop that pigeon, stop that pigeon. Howwww? Nab him, jab him, tab him, grab him, stop that pigeon now! One for all and all for one, musketeers are always ready. One for all and all for one, helping everybody. One for all and all for one, it's a pretty story. Sharing everything with fun, that's the way to be. One for all and all for one, musketeers are always ready. One for all and all for one, helping everybody. One for all and all for one, can sound pretty corny. If you've got a problem chum, think how it could be. Ulysses, Ulysses - Soaring through all the galaxies. In search of Earth, flying in to the night.
Ulysses, Ulysses - Fighting evil and tyranny, with all his power, and with all of his might. Ulysses - no-one else can do the things you do. Ulysses - like a bolt of thunder from the blue. Ulysses - always fighting all the evil forces bringing peace and justice to all. Just the good ol' boys, never meanin' no harm. Beats all you've ever saw, been in trouble with the law since the day they was born. Straight'nin' the curve, flat'nin' the hills. Someday the mountain might get 'em, but the law never will. Makin' their way, the only way they know how, that's just a little bit more than the law will allow. Just good ol' boys, wouldn't change if they could, fightin' the system like a true modern day Robin Hood.
Ulysses, Ulysses - Soaring through all the galaxies. In search of Earth, flying in to the night. Ulysses, Ulysses - fighting evil and tyranny, with all his power, and with all of his might. Ulysses - no-one else can do the things you do. Ulysses - like a bolt of thunder from the blue. Ulysses - always fighting all the evil forces bringing peace and justice to all.
