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Divisive Events
Unified perspecti
of A
ves on the work
Alois Kr
ustrian-bor
onschläe
n sculptor
ger
Left, Metallic
Repercussions, Detail
2006, (Light Almond
Pearl) latex caulk,
paper, polystyrene
base, 73"x11"x11"
“I couldn’t wear gloves,” the Austrian-born artist Alois Kronschläeger section of Greenpoint, Brooklyn. This enclave, separated from the main space by
remarks as he kneads a piece of aluminum mesh with his thumb. A hand-rolled a freestanding wall, is for the moment dominated by a makeshift framework on
cigarette is pinched between his index and middle fingers. “I want to touch it, to which Kronschläeger bends, folds and fastens the flexible mesh, fabricating the
really work with it. Part of the process is asking ‘What is it that the material can individual components of a large, partially assembled sculpture on the other side
really do?’...I don’t want to say if you ‘listen’ to it, but you need to pay attention of the wall.
to how tactile it is, how it might shift or bend, how it might be re-contextualized.”
“There is an energy trapped in the manipulated mesh,” the artist says, leaning
We are sitting in the office of Kronschläeger’s studio, located in a still industrial forward before taking another drag from his cigarette. Kronschläeger is tall and
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