ERNST LOGAR
NON PUBLIC SPACES
16 – 19 September 2005

Open Fri, Mon 10 - 5, Sat 12 – 4
Sun by appointment only - 07946387732
Opening 16 September 2005, 6 – 8pm,
Delfina, Sky Light Gallery, 50 Bermondsey Street

This is the first London exhibition for Ernst Logar a young Austrian artist living in Vienna. Logar was the winner of Kunsthalle Wien prize 2004, collaboration between Kunsthalle Wien, Delfina Studio Trust and Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien. As part of the prize Logar was awarded a residency in London during summer 2005.

Non Public Spaces is a series of photographs, videos and documentation of places not normally open to the public. They are chosen for their special political, economic or social significance, such as mortuaries of forensic medicine, central computer rooms where population related data are registered and processed, police arsenals, strong rooms which store state assets, depots of public art collections, news studios and other significant places. They are all instruments of power in a state and global context. The show will include works where Logar was granted permission to enter closed spaces in Vienna, Paris and New York. More recent works are concerned with accessing media news rooms in London.

Non Public Spaces is about the artist’s continual effort to penetrate these places and the confrontation of the individual with the apparatus of power and its institutions. Through diverse strategies and elaborate bureaucratic authorisation procedures, he attempt to reach and document these places.
www.logar.co.at

For further information please contact Karin Eklund on 020 7357 6600 or email admin@delfina.org.uk.