A series of drawings depicting "mental minutes of in-between-ness" – fleeting moments of fragmentary memory when travelling by train. The state of moving fast through the landscape triggers constantly the imagination. The continuous (and impossible) attempt to draw and get hold of some details passing by which catch my attention makes the whole process of remembering and forgetting -quite literally a visualisation of trains of thoughts - very palpable. The changing velocity and the permanent micro movements (the wiggle & waggle) of the wagons affect also the scribbling character of the drawings.
Year: ongoing project since 2002
Technique: pencil
Exhibited at:
– 2012 Nicht nur ein Bild, sondern eine ganze Welt, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna
– 2011 Lonely at the Top, Graphology#4, (curated by Edwin Carels), Muhka, Antwerp, Belgium
Reviews:
– "Bildfundus Comicuniversum", Nicht nur ein Bild, sondern eine ganze Welt, Franz Thalmair, in: Kunstforum, Bd.215, 2012.
Published in:
"Nicht nur ein Bild, sondern eine ganze Welt / Not just an image but a whole world", Christiane Krejs (Ed.) catalogue, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Wien, 2012