Rollenbatterie
2023
60x125,5cm
Encre sur papier
Wagner Plan
Édition Cuturi, 25pc.
43x35cm
2023
Schwingungsdampfer
2023
60x85cm
Encre sur papier
Pilzantrieb
2023
88x125,5cm
Encre sur papier
Windscreencleaner
2021
88x125,5cm
Encre sur papier
Elmiskop
2022
42x30cm
Encre sur papier
Starteinrichtung für Startapparat
2021
59,5x42cm
Encre sur papier
BalkonFoyer Deckenleuchte
2021
85x60cm
Encre sur papier
Erneuerung d. Dachkonstruktion
2019
86x78cm
Encre sur papier
Faust Reitschule Salzburg
2019
34x64cm
Encre sur papier
Der Rosenkavalier
2019
42x30cm
Encre sur papier
Figaro Haus für Mozart
2019
60x92cm
Encre sur papier
Festspielhaus Salzburg
2019
82x109cm
Encre sur papier
Neues Festspielhaus (Semper Drama)
2020
82x120cm
Encre sur papier
Ambrosi M.T. Solomos
2020
29,7x104cm
Encre sur papier
Antrieb f. Förderanlage
2020
59,8x83,2cm
Encre sur papier
Ofen Aufstellung
2019
59x84cm
Encre sur papier
Seilbahnwagen-
kasten

2019
84x59cm
Encre sur papier
Snowclaws
2019
96x134cm
Encre sur papier
Stromlaufplan
2018
29x118,5cm
Encre sur papier
commandÉ par la TU Wien
Regler
2018
59,9x29,5cm
Encre sur papier
commandÉ par la TU Wien
Kaminkühler - Konzession
2018
70x48cm
Encre sur papier
commandÉ par la TU Wien
St. Röhrenkühler
2018
59x84cm
Encre sur papier
commandÉ par la TU Wien
Fünfstufige Dampfstrahl - Sauganlage
2018
59x84cm
Encre sur papier
commandÉ par la TU Wien
Connection du moteur plongé
2018
29,7x21cm
Encre sur papier
Psyché et l‘architecture du vide
2017
12 pièces à 29,5x21cm
Encre sur papier
Mattskiss Förtambola
2017
42x59,5cm
Encre sur papier
Accrocheur de soupape
2017
30x42cm
Encre sur papier
Automatischer Rotor - Selbstanlasser
2017
30x42cm
Encre sur papier
Druckknopf-
Steuerungsteil

2017
42x30cm
Encre sur papier
Druckpumpe
2016
41x58.5cm
Encre sur papier
Tvadela Valsflaska
2016
42x59cm
Encre sur papier
Presskorp HP 1500
2016
43.5x65cm
Encre sur papier
Presshaus
2016
50x30cm
Encre sur papierr
Getriebeteile
2016
43.5x60cm
Encre sur papier
Ensemble 2
2016
56x118cm
Encre sur papier
Antriebsstation
2016
50x70cm
Encre sur papier
T-Stütze
2016
35x60cm
Encre sur papier
Abseilgerät
2016
50x30cm
Encre sur papier
Unterbau zu einer Pieta
2015
40x50cm
Encre sur papier
Seitenaufriss des Münsters zu Freiburg
2015
42x78cm
Encre sur papier
Casier de mélange
2010
50x37cm
Encre sur papier
FC Shaktar Stadium
2015
A0
Encre sur papier
Ensemble
2014
50x70m
Encre sur papier
Medusa
2014
60x100cm
Encre sur papier
Collection Musée Albertina
Sonnensystem
2014
50x70m
Encre sur papier
Einreichspläne Blatt 6a
2014
70x40m
Encre sur papier
Zona Espropriata
2014
70x120cm
Encre sur papier
Collection Privée
Alpha Art
2014
40x80cm
Encre sur papier
Collection Privée
Kanal
2013
63x59cm
Encre sur papier
Bunker
2013
30x84cm
Encre sur papier
Detailprojekt
2013
30x83cm
Encre sur papier
Rain Dog Afternoon
2013
69x84cm
Encre sur papier
Collection Privée
Rechauffeur d`huile
2012
55x90cm
Encre sur papier
Collection Givaudan
Vanilline
2012
30x105cm
Encre sur papier
Collection Givaudan
Spiralschlangen
2012
80x50cm
Encre sur papier
Collection Givaudan
Plate-Forme
2012
40x80cm
Encre sur papier
Collection Givaudan
Bauelement Nr. 100
2010
37x50cm
Encre sur papier
Collection d`Albertina
Plan de situation
2010
100x200cm
Encre sur papier
Bremse
2009
58x83cm
Encre sur papier
Collection privée
Grundgestell
2008
58x83cm
Encre sur papier
Collection privée
Autoclave 7 litres
2008
82x116cm
Encre sur papier
Steuerteil
2008
40x50cm
Encre sur papier
Zeichnungen Lionel Favre
Zeichnungen Lionel Favre
< Info  >

Ausstellung Freiburg

MORE THAN SMOKE

The conflict in Ukraine has been covered by Western media from the very beginning. Not a day goes by without terrifying news reports flying at us like bullets.
Wide-angle images of the smoldering ruins of Donetsk Airport still flash before my eyes. I often wonder about how to capture such a conflict in a single visual form. In 2010, I had the opportunity to work on an art project in Donetsk. Twelve artists and I spent three weeks in this impressive city creating artworks that we planned to exhibit at a later date. I returned home with many eclectic materials: old and new diagrams and building plans, thousands of photographs and a single painting. Interactions with local residents made the biggest impression on me, and I dreamed of someday doing a project about Donetsk.
Back then Donetsk was a green, industrial city on the rise, increasingly rich in leisure opportunities for the working class. On weekdays it was quiet, but on weekends the city came alive. Long boulevards lined with boutiques invited comparisons to Berlin, Vienna and Paris. Donetsk was a young, booming metropolis with industrial ambitions and long-term growth prospects. Not long after we left, European soccer championship matches were held in the city’s brand-new stadium.
Now, every day brings more images of the horrors of war. All that remains of the city, which I was lucky enough to experience in its heyday, are tallies of the dead and wounded.
In response, I asked myself: How much art and culture is necessary to avoid conflict?
During World War II, Paris was surrendered without a fight because both sides wanted to preserve the city’s cultural diversity and save its rich art and architecture from destruction. Culture saved a city then; who cares that it surrendered without a fight? Despite Nazi propaganda, émigré artists and intellectuals founded new nonfigurative art movements far from home. Gathering in New York, they discussed how best to oppose fascism and socialist realism. These conversations gave birth to abstract art. Art is rarely a purely aesthetic phenomenon; it usually follows from a certain ideology.
Later, during the Cold War, Western intelligence agencies successfully recruited prominent members of the Western intellectual and artistic elite to become (consciously or not) 21 obedient mouthpieces for liberal ideas and values.
What is the role of art in war?
Does art have a role to play amid the horrors of war? Is it justifiable under such conditions? Or is it simply an object of desire — a luxury, in other words? Is art possible in a world plunged into chaos? Is it capable of correcting misunderstandings? Or does it stand above the fray, somewhere beyond our powers of understanding? Art and culture are proof of civilization’s intellectual development. Time and again, art gives witness to an era and warns us of things to come.
In my photographs, Donetsk is still free and at peace. Art endeavors to show the multifariousness of life without lies and distortions. Because art holds a mirror to the world, it shines light and hope into the very darkest corners of the earth.
“For art is the daughter of freedom, and it requires its prescriptions and rules to be furnished by the necessity of spirits and not by that of matter.”
(Friedrich Schiller)

Here you can download a PDF Version of the catalogue of the exhibition MORE THAN SMOKE at the Austrian Cultural Forum Moscow.
For an interactive web-version of this catalogue click here.