Wolfgang Ellenrieder: BLANKO

Blanko examines ideas of entropy, not only as a process of disorder or randomness within everything, but also as the movement of energy continually in states of transformation. In devising this installation, Wolfgang Ellenrieder similarly reflects on the transitory nature of an art installation.

He considers entropy through images and representations of the natural world, but also the notion that through the presentation of complex visions that arise variously within the immersive experience of installation, we can also simultaneously reflect on the impermanence of that experience. As all things disperse within the natural world, the art installation eternally carries the notion of dissolution within it, eventually only ever residing impalpably, as a discursive set of remembrances.

Blanko explores ideas of dispersal and diffusion and the inexorable fleetingness of experience.

Wolfgang Ellenrieder is a senior academic from Braunschweig University of Art. His visit is part of an annual teaching exchange and partnership initiated for the School of Art in 2019.

Opening reception: Wednesday 4 October 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Exhibition dates: Thursday 5 October to Friday 13 October 10:00 until 4:00 pm, Monday to Friday

Exhibition venue: SITE EIGHT Gallery, Building 2, Level 2, Room 8, Bowen St (off La Trobe St), Melbourne

Acknowledgements: Wolfgang Ellenrieder’s teaching residency and exhibition are supported by Braunschweig University of Art, The Ministry of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony (Germany), RMIT School of Art and RMIT Culture.