Bernhard Fruer extends in his artistic work an approach to drawing to the medium of video. He uses and questions the formal similarities of both media by bringing the sketch character of the drawings and the playfully dynamic operational approach of video together.
In the 3-D animation "Crashsink," things Fruer does not like or that frighten him crash onto a milky, reflecting surface which positively swallows them accompanied by a threatening and fateful gong. Similar to the planes hijacked for a sinister mission on 9/11, heart, lungs, cigarette packets, flowers and plane seats, and also presumably the associated memories, crash against this all-swallowing wall. In this act of loss and destruction "Crashsink" also gives rise to the hope of forgetting and beginning again, as if new objects, organs and bodies could come into being on the other side in order to escape one’s own fate a little in the end.
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Limited edition, signed by the artist: 34 + 5 exemplars
Edition text: Kristina Marberger
Video: Bernhard Fruer
Animation & sound: Philipp Luftensteiner
2012, 1:13 min. Video on DVD
Edition Medienturm, release 30 / Summer 13