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SALON REAL / VIRTUAL 10# Salon: Marko Zink | IN THE MACHINE

03.09. – 29.10.2021
galerie michaela stock, Vienna

OPENING DAYS
PREVIEW:  Thursday, 2.9., 6 - 9 pm
 Friday, 3.9. and Samstag, 4.9., 12 - 7 pm

invited by vienna contemporary
invited by ROTLICHT FESTIVAL
ROTLICHT is an international festival for contemporary analog photography, which will take place in Vienna for the first time this autumn. www.rotlicht-festival.at

ROTLICHT FESTIVAL CHAT | 08.10.2021 | 7 pm
WHERE | galerie michaela stock, Schleifmühlgasse 18, 1040 Wien
Marko Zink and Natascha Muhic
www.vinylograph.at

 

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FM4 / CONNECTED / TALK: Marko Zink and Natascha Muhic as guests on Radio FM4 (4.9.2021, 5:10 min). The conversation was conducted by Michael Fiedler
Radio Fm4 > HERE TO LISTEN


ELFRIEDE JELINEK & MARKO ZINK
In 2004, Elfriede Jelinek received the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power".
The voices in Marko Zink's analogue photo series have a similar overtone. That is the reason why Elfriede Jelinek wrote two essays on the photo series "In the machine" (2002-2006) and "In the forest: tragedies" (2008-2010) for Marko Zink and recorded them in the in-house studio for him.


10# SALON | IN THE MACHINE
The new exhibition of Marko Zink opens on the 3rd of September at galerie michaela stock. The exhibition is part of the ongoing SALON REAL / VIRTUAL salon exhibitions.
While four selected analogue photographs are displayed at the gallery's real space, Zink uses the virtual salon for the complete cycle of the photo series "In the machine" and "In the forest: tragedies", staging and contextualising them with the two texts by Jelinek.

 

Poster, Salon Real / Virtual MARKO ZINK, digital print, 170g, 60 x 42 cm, signed, edition: 100
SALON REAL / VIRTUAL 10# Salon: Marko Zink | IN THE MACHINE, exhibition view, galerie michaela stock, 2021
SALON REAL / VIRTUAL 10# Salon: Marko Zink | IN THE MACHINE, exhibition view, galerie michaela stock, 2021
SALON REAL / VIRTUAL 10# Salon: Marko Zink | IN THE MACHINE, exhibition view, galerie michaela stock, 2021
SALON REAL / VIRTUAL 10# Salon: Marko Zink | IN THE MACHINE, exhibition view, galerie michaela stock, 2021
Marko Zink, In the Machine, 2021, special edition, TALKING POSTCARD: vinyl sound postcard (14.8 x 21 cm), Vinylograph Vienna + framed photo In the Machine_3314_10A (20 x 25 cm)
Marko Zink, In the Machine, 2021, TALKING POSTCARD: vinyl sound postcard (14.8 x 21 cm), Vinylograph Vienna
Marko Zink, In the Machine, video, 2021, 6:15 min., video still, Schauspielhaus Graz, 2021
Marko Zink, In the machine_3314_10A, analogue photography, 2006, 120 x 80 cm, Edition : 3 + 2AP
Marko Zink, In the machine_3314_17A, analogue photography, 2006, 60 x 90 cm, Edition : 3 + 2AP
Marko Zink, In the machine_3314_28A, analogue photography, 2006, 60 x 90 cm, Edition : 3 + 2AP
Marko Zink, In the machine_7482__1A, analogue photography, 2006, 60 x 90 cm, Edition : 3 + 2AP
Marko Zink, In the machine_7482__2A, analogue photography, 2006, 60 x 90 cm, Edition : 3 + 2AP
Marko Zink, In the machine_7482__9A, analogue photography, 2006, 60 x 90 cm, Edition : 3 + 2AP
Marko Zink, In the machine_9249_32A, analogue photography, 2006, 60 x 90 cm, Edition : 3 + 2AP
Marko Zink, I never promised you anything_4338_11, from the series In the forest:tragedies, 2021, analogue panorama photography, matt Diasec, mounted, 73 x 180 cm, Edition 3 + 2AP
Marko Zink, I never promised you anything_4338_15, from the series In the forest:tragedies, 2021, analogue panorama photography, matt Diasec, mounted, 73 x 180 cm, Edition 3 + 2AP
Marko Zink, I never promised you anything_4788_03, from the series In the forest:tragedies, 2021, analoge panorama photograph, matt Diasec, mounted, 73 x 180 cm, edition 3 + 2AP
Marko Zink, I never promised you anything_ 4791_04, from the series In the forest:tragedies, 2021, analogue panorama photography, matt Diasec, mounted, 73 x 180 cm, Edition 3 + 2AP
Marko Zink, I never promised you anything_7137_22, from the series In the forest:tragedies, 2021, analogue panorama photography, matt Diasec, mounted, 73 x 180 cm, Edition 3 + 2AP
Marko Zink, I never promised you anything_9940_11, from the series In the forest:tragedies, 2021, analogue panorama photography, matt Diasec, mounted, 73 x 180 cm, Edition 3 + 2AP

MZ | In der Maschine


THE SETTING
For the photo series "In the Machine" Marko Zink gained access to vacant rental properties without permission and hid in appliances and furniture in the apartments. This secret activity is reflected in the photographs, which appear white and sterile. The machines and furnishings shown spit out the artist's body parts. However, it often also seems as though they swallowed the artist and the remaining limb stood in contrast to the respective machine. Jelinek describes this condition: "The machine doesn't pass anything on; it is an executive organ from which human organs sometimes protrude in some places; because this human won't fit completely into the device and his organs not into his body, he has partially remained outside. In part, he had to stay outside. In order to at least retain his humanity outside the door?" It shows an insatiable, futile human desire to adapt, which is often a forced way of fitting into a predefined de-social space.


MAIN MOTIVE OF MONTH OF PHOTOGRAPHY
The analogue panorama photographs "In the forest: tragedies" had already been chosen as the central theme of the Photography Month in Vienna in 2010. In 2021, new works of the series "I never promised you anything" were added. Again, Zink addresses the doomsday scenario and celebrates a terrifying timelessness using hybrid creatures and vegetal ambiguities, more topical than ever. Jelinek says: "Are those animals? No, they are we-ings, but with interspersions of animals. Animals without power fantasies, which only humans have."
What unites the photographic works of Marko Zink are staged, empty rooms and an apparent transience of everything existing. The works shown are of a performative and transient nature; the carrier material, analogue film, is cooked before exposure and also dissolves after a while. This is not only an important artistic concept of Zink but also his unique signature with a high recognition effect.


VINYL POSTCARD ELFRIEDE JELINEK
A vinyl sound postcard was produced for the exhibition IN THE MACHINE by Vinylograph Vienna. This rectangular vinyl record, which can also be sent as a postcard, shows a machine work by Marko Zink as a cover. On the vinyl itself – and that is a world premiere – the Nobel Prize laureate can be heard reciting the text for Marko Zink. This TALKING POSTCARD will be available in a strictly limited edition with a signed photograph of Zink.


SCHAUSPIELHAUS GRAZ
Marko Zink directed a video with this TALKING POSTCARD at Schauspielhaus Graz for the virtual showroom. A lone record player is sitting on stage, with Jelinek´s rectangular record turning on it. The auditorium is empty, so is the stage. Instead of human actors, a machine enters the stage.
Starting with the 1st of October the new play "Das Licht im Kasten. Straße? Stadt? Nicht mit mir!! by Elfriede Jelinek will premiere at the Schauspielhaus Graz. Zink´s video "in the machine" will be presented on site at the same time.


PRESS INFORMATION
DOWNLOAD press release / press portfolio Marko Zink 10# Salon: IN THE MACHINE
DOWNLOAD essay on the exhibition by Wolfgang Huber-Lang
We would appreciate a report/mentioning in your medium.
I hereby confirm the approval for the free of charge publication of all sent images / text.
Courtesy: Marko Zink / galerie michaela stock


PRESS IMAGES
Press image 1: Marko Zink, In the Machine_3314_28A, analogue color photography, 2006, 60 x 90 cm, Edition : 3 + 2AP
Press image 2: Marko Zink, I never promised you anything_7137_22, from the series In the forest: tragedies, 2021, analogue panorama photography, matt Diasec, mounted, 73 x 180 cm, Edition 3 + 2AP
Press image 3: Marko Zink, In the Machine, video, 2021, 6:15 min., video still, Schauspielhaus Graz, 2021
Press image 4: Marko Zink, In the Machine, 2021, Special Edition TALKING POSTCARD: vinyl sound postcard (14.8 x 21 cm) plus framed photography In the machine_3314_10A, 25 x 30 cm, edition: 50


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Michaela Stock or Alisa Wolf
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