You are cordially invited to Florian Raditsch's first solo presentation in Berlin. The work of the Austrian American artist uniquely combines folk art and non-European traditions with the modernism of the early 20th century. Using various techniques and media, he fuses his sources into a new contemporary cosmos permeated by a sensitive awareness of nature. Raditsch grew up in the Sierra Nevada and in the Californian highlands among farmers and dropouts of all orientations. There are numerous thematic overlaps between this influence and the ideas of the early avant-garde. Expressive dance, spiritualism, the IT of the beatniks, and indigenous rituals play just as much a role in it as real fires, whose explosive energy and allegorical presence are given an additional interpretation in their new context in the centre of Berlin. The city and its surroundings were once a hotspot of reformatory ideas in all areas of life, from art and nutrition to education. Today, not a summer goes by without forest fires and the lakes are disappearing before our eyes.
Control Burn is the 31st installation in the foyer and corridors of the Kunstverein. The exhibition Manageable Matter by Emma Waltraud Howes opens at the same time.
