Artists

Laura Langer

Press release

Galerie Oskar Weiss is pleased to announce Laura Langer Parts Unknown, opening on Friday, June 12 on the occasion of Zurich Art Weekend.

"The capacity to assume non-human points of view is one of the things that makes humans human, between curiosity and control, suspension. I am drawn to rescale things. Zooming out, simply to be able to zoom in again. It comes with a mix of excitement and longing. A little dizziness? The zoom out, the scale out, brings information. Is this what makes a landscape a landscape? Scaling out? From a texture to a surface. We then recognise their context, their small worlds, containers and intersections."

Parts Unknown shows a new series of landscapes that insist on repeating an aerial view of a city. The paintings are a continuation of two series of works, Pilots and Discharge Painting, whose images accidentally or/and coincidentally happen to resemble each other.

On Saturday, June 13, the book launch of her catalogue Why am I me?, published on the occasion of her solo exhibition at Simian, Copenhagen, will take place from 4pm on and will be accompanied by a conversation between Laura Langer and the writer Kristian Vistrup Madsen.

Opening hours during Zurich Art Weekend:
Friday, June 12, 11am–9pm
Saturday, June 13, 11am–8pm
Sunday, June 14, 11am–6pm

During Art Basel week, the gallery in Zurich remains open on normal opening hours.