After 4-weeks of research at the center, Fanni Futterknecht and Marianne Vlaschits will present Metamorphic Garden a performance installation set in the gardens of The Watermill Center. In Metamorphic Garden Fanni and Marianne will perform a sculptural painting based on the idea of a metamorphic garden that illustrates an artificial fantastical landscape of objects, shapes and colors. The final performance installation of Metamorphic Garden will be performed at Donaufestival Austria in April 2015.
A screening of the films An Object with Sharp Beginning by Fanni Futterknecht and Malibu Sunrise by Marianne Vlaschits will precede the work-in-progress performance of Metamorphic Garden. A reception and Q&A with the artists will follow the presentation.
About the Artists
Fanni Futterknecht creates performances for a stage context and works with video. Born in Vienna, she has been studying visual art in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Vienna. Her work began with video installations and evolved from performative interventions in public space to performances that are constructed for a theater context. She is curious in exploring the borders between the context of performing arts and fine art.
Marianne Vlaschits is an Austrian artist, who studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and London. Her work deals with the never fully satiable longing for consummate beauty and felicity. Using the human body as a starting point, her interest leads her towards the creation of artificial paradises, often through the idealization of exotica. Borrowing from cultural history’s entire repertoire, she works with diverse motifs, processing them into an eclectic mixture of tropes and styles. Foundation of all of Vlaschits’ work is her bold and simple style of painting, which she extends into three-dimensional installations. Through the use of performative interventions these paintings finally turn into “Tableaux Vivants”, carrying the spirit of Humanism and its never-ending utopian dream – while reflecting art’s role in the history of ideas.
Photo Credit: Christian Bazant-Hegemark, Garden of Lust, 2012
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