Published by GALLERY AOP and Marcus Neustetter
Johannesburg, South Africa
November 2010

© GALLERY AOP and Marcus Neustetter

Layout and design Marcus Neustetter
Photographs John Hodgkiss
Printed by Ultra Litho

ISBN 978-0-620-489450-8

Low resolution pdf:

in motion book lowres (7.3MB)

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ENTRACTE is a post-performace film recorded during the AFROPIXEL FESTIVAL MAY 2010, DAKAR (SENEGAL) by Hobbs/Neustettter

Located in Zone A, Sicap, Maison 46 – standing for 10 years, is destined for demolition to make way for a new development. In collaboration with students from the Ecole de Beaux Arts in Dakar, a series of projection and performance scenes were developed as a reflection on the pathetic state of this building and the expectations of a new architecture to come. Hobbs/Neustetter’s extended practice in South Africa as consultants to public art and urban design regeneration initiatives has heightened their awareness, on other related projects in Africa, to the unique and particular conditions surrounding contingent innovation in local architecture and spatial practices. As a performance, Entracte responds to the unusual circumstances where the predictable restrictions placed by western building standards; public health and safety and user regulations, for example, is bi-passed by virtue of the experimental and opportunistic characteristics of perhaps less regulated urban situations. In this sense Entracte or intermission, takes advantage of the gap in the narrative of urban planning and reflects on the potential of the creative city in Africa.

Hobbs/Neustetter’s performance of live action, photographic stills, video and lazer projections included Aurora Sound Recordings by James Webb (SA) and selected tracks from Joao Orecchia’s (SA) 2009 release Hands and Feet.

Special thanks to: Marion Louis-Grand and Francoi Sylla, Ker Thiossane Residency and Afropixel Festival, The Trinity Session and Ecole de Beaux Arts, Dakar, Senegal

Digital prints, drawings and sculptural sketches towards a permanent installation on the roof of the new development: Main Street Life.

The public artwork aims to reflect on the aspirations of Johannesburg’s search beneath the surface through its goldmines, referenced here in the gear-head design, and the understanding of our planet and environment through studying our contemporary skies, such as through telescopes in the nearby Observatory. On looking through this proposed telescope on the roof of Main Street Life, the viewer will see a self-referential kaleidoscopic image. The artwork has been integrated into the branding of the building and design details and fabrication methodologies are being developed in further sketches and models towards realizing its production and installation.

The Visual Collider in collaboration with Nina Czegledy

Destination: Banff
Other Gallery, The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada
March 11, 2010 5-9 pm

Banff exhibition overview low-res PDF:

visual collider banff (1MB)

the observatory in the making
observation structures and sites of discovery

12 December 2009 – 23 January 2010

Marcus Neustetter’s third solo exhibition at GALLERY AOP pulls together various strands of the artist’s visual thinking. On show are a series of works that evolved from the work-in-progress sculptural installation at the Joburg Art Fair 2009, as well as various visual explorations of experiences in Sutherland in the Western Cape, which will culminate in his version of an ‘artist observatory’ to be constructed there.

His intention is to suggest, advance and produce in a playful way, site specific situations, models and structures, akin to, among other things, the drawing frames of such 15th century artists as Alberti, Da Vinci and Dürer. These will serve as perspectives for observing, drawing and enabling a visual experience. Following Dürer’s example, Van Gogh also constructed one of these drawing frames and in a letter to his brother, made a sketch of himself using it. Sir John Herschel’s four foot telescope of around 1789 also served as inspiration for Neustetter’s models and constructions. Neustetter has always had a pre-occupation with mapping and drawing Google earth perspectives as well as mapping and drawing the night sky in an attempt to understand his own position between the city lights and the stars.

In his pursuit to develop an artists’ observatory amongst the international telescopes in Sutherland, Marcus Neustetter has been drawing, photographing, printing and constructing models and installations. His latest exhibition, The observatory in the making presents a selection of drawings and make-shift structures in relation to documentation of other significant experiments and discoveries.

His intention to make sense of the reflections on the night skies has taken him to various locations in 2009. Neustetter’s explorations around the world have afforded him the opportunity to challenge his perceptions by means of on-site drawings and playful interventions in such diverse locations as the archaeological dig sites in Vela Spila (Croatia), the observatory in Sutherland, the Vredefort Dome meteorite impact crater south of Johannesburg, and in Norway, chasing the Aurora Borealis. His orientation, however, does not centre on a horizontal perspective rendering, but rather on a vertical one, looking up into the night sky and the stars, or down onto earth.

During his visits to Sutherland, Neustetter spends the nights working on glow-stick, laser and LED light installations that map constellations in the Karoo landscape, or drawing the space between the stars, much like artists were doing it before the camera was invented. While this activity has resulted in photographs and drawings, it has also encouraged him to look at structures such as observation decks and telescopes. Returning to his 16th floor apartment in a high rise building in Johannesburg city centre, Neustetter often contemplates his spacial position and has been toying with the idea of an observation platform on a rooftop nearby.

Thank you to: Oulet, Imajez, Silvertone, The Trinity Session, Main Street Life, Salt/SAAO, and especially Kevin Govender, Shane De Lange, Stacey Vorster, Ruth Rom, Gareth van Honschooten, James Webb, Jonathan Leibmann, Stephen Hobbs, Bronwyn Lace and John Hodgkiss for documenting the exhibition.

Please see low-resolution PDF for more information:
observatoryinthemaking (2.5MB)

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The Visual Collider in collaboration with Nina Czegledy

Presentation: New York
Artist book and projection
Thursday, January 7, 2010, 6.30PM

Space on Dobbin, 50-52 Dobbin Street, Brooklyn, New York

The Visual Collider premiered in September 2009 at the Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, Vela Luka, Croatia. At Space on Dobbin, Nina Czegledy and Marcus Neustetter presented the artist book of The Visual Collider, accompanied by a superimposed projection that collides Czegledy and Neustetter’s imagery.

New York exhibition overview and review in the ‘Williamsburg Greenpoint News + Arts’ in low-res PDF:

visual collider new york (1.2MB)

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The Visual Collider
Marcus Neustetter and Nina Czegledy

edition 10

Launched in Vela Luka (Coratia) and presented in Banff (Canada) and New York (USA).

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visualcolliderbook (3.5MB)

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In 2008 and 2009 Walter Stach and Marcus Neustetter have been experimenting with public paintings and drawings in response to the Uefa 08 and Confed Cup 09. These have manifested in collective performative production, publicly displayed paintings, site-specific installations and a book of drawings.

Please see low-resolution PDF for more information:
uefa08 confed09 overview pdf

Uefa08 Finals book filmed (1.9MB)
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