198 × 62 × 45 cm
132 × 47.5 × 36 cm
Arcadia Missa is proud to present Music for shipping containers, a solo exhibition by Jan Vorisek.
The work of Jan Vorisek brings together a repurposing of materials, systems and symbols that serve to highlight the codes in which power, control and subversion operate, as well as the various channels through which (commodity) fetishism inserts itself.
While Vorisek’s work spans sculpture, installation, performance and sound, Music for shipping containers functions as a framework through which a new body of sculptures is unveiled, interconnected through their shared materials, motifs and a musical score.
An extension of Vorisek’s studio practice, the works comprise found materials, made and altered objects and surfaces, to create assemblages on modular components. These reference architectural models, furniture, city planning as well as global systems of consumption — through which objects travel. Packing items become the objects themselves, painted and framed into Perspex. The act of looking down gives the viewer a sense of control, as do the nods to controlled subversion within the accumulated and contained items. Above, a drone sound permeates the space, implying surveillance and signalling the birdseye view implanted onto the floor of the gallery.
Jan Vorisek (b. 1987, Basel, CH) lives and works in Zürich, CH. Recent solo exhibitions include No Sun, Swiss Institute, New York, US (2021); Song For Dead Time, Galerie Bernhard, Zürich, CH (2020); Collapse Poem, Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, CH (2020); and Crisis Instrument, Observation Society presented by Bottom Space, Guangzhou, CN (2018). Recent group exhibitions include Crowd Control, High Art with Arcadia Missa, Arles, FR (2022); Techno, Museion, Bolzano, IT (2021); Blind Date, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, CH (2019); and Its Urgent, Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Luma Westbau, Zürich, CH (2019).
List of works:
- False World, 2022
PLA, latex milk, paint, lacquer 18 cm ø 21 cm (7 ⅛ inches ø 8 ¼ inches) - Propaganda of Passion, 2022
Plywood, paint, polylactic acid, latex milk, paint, lacquer
26.5 × 200 × 100 cm (10 ⅜ × 78 ¾ × 39 ⅜ inches) - In a protein sky, running protein fields, with my protein eye, 2022
Mycelium, paint, shredded bills, glue, soil
26 × 40.5 × 30 cm (10 ¼ × 16 × 11 ¾ inches) - Untitled (City Life), 2022
MDF, paint, latex, sim cards
ø 51 cm (ø 20 ⅛ inches) - Thousand Years of Poor Connection, 2022
Steel, wires, paper, filter, wood, prints, plastic, fabric
139 × 301 × 5 cm (54 ¾ × 118 ½ × 2 inches) - The Bugged Inducer, 2022
Resin glazed styrofoam, steel, paint, mesh
51 × 57 × 14 cm (20 ⅛ × 22 ½ × 5 ½ inches) 20 cm ø 21.5 cm (7 ⅞ inches ø 8 ½ inches) - Untitled (Containers), 2022
Perspex, wood, paint, paper, photo, foil, resin, mesh, print, fabric, laminate
54 × 66 × 5.5 cm (21 ¼ × 26 × 2 ⅛ inches) - Untitled (Vein), 2022
Wood, cardboard, paint, lacquer
32 × 43.5 × 40.5 cm (12 ⅝ × 17 ⅛ × 16 inches) - Strange World, 2022
Resin glazed styrofoam, pin, paint
22 × 57 × 25 cm (8 ⅝ × 22 ½ × 9 ⅞ inches) - Ballad, 2022
Cardboard, wood, polylactic acid, latex, paint
48 × 30.5 × 30.5 cm (18 ⅞ × 12 × 12 inches) - The Incomplete Interior, 2022
Plywood plinth, Perspex, styrofoam,resin, PVA, paint, latex, paper, cardboard
132 × 47.5 × 36 cm (52 × 18 ¾ × 14 ⅛ inches) - Analytical Show Room Desire, 2022
Steel, aluminium,PVA, rubber, paint, paper, rope, hooks, chains
Approximate dimensions: 198 × 62 × 45 cm (78 × 24 ⅜× 17 ¾ inches) - Untitled (Terminal), 2022
Plywood, PVA, paint, varnish
60 × 40 × 40 cm (23 ⅝ × 15 ¾ × 15 ¾ inches) - Display Function, 2022
Concrete, plastic, latex
14 cm ø 45 cm (5 ½ inches ø 17 ¾ inches) - Untitled, 2022
Wood, two component paint
20 × 28 cm (7 ⅞ × 11 inches) - I-N-H-A-B-I-T-A-N-T-S, 2022
Plywood, paint, latex
46 × 35 × 40 cm (18 ⅛ × 13 ¾ × 15 ¾ inches) - Untitled, 2022
Plywood plinth, PLA, paint
46 × 42 × 30 cm (18 ⅛ × 16 ½ × 11 ¾ inches) - Untitled (Container), 2022
Perspex, wood, paint, paper, latex, foil, resin, mesh, print, fabric
35 × 55 × 4.5 cm (13 ¾ × 21 ⅝ × 1 ¾ inches) - Untitled (Billboard), 2022
Styrofoam, airbrush, prints, paper
23 × 36 × 8 cm (9 × 14 ⅛ × 3 ⅛ inches) - The real you, 2022
Four broadcasting speakers, real time modular feedback loop