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Vernissage – Jakob Mödlinger „Just Make Me a Computer“ 2023

The exhibition Just Make Me a Computer presents a painterly graphic examination of the role of the individual in a virtualising society. In view of the increasing tendency to grasp identity in virtual space, Jakob Mödlinger's works raise critical questions about the comprehensibility of the self in the context of today's technical developments. It deals with a present that is understood as a time of change from the organic to the technical, from the analogue to the digital, from man on the way to the computer; a development whose end lies in the inseparability of these two instances. Discomfort and fears lurk behind dazzling facades of social media and networking, which Jakob Mödlinger reflects through the use of pastel shades in the colouring combined with an impulsive painting style. A classical sense of beauty is placed in a transient, even morbid context through an aesthetic contrast between idyll and decay.
Clinging to the tried and tested artistic form of expression of painting, the analogue image, the individual finds himself in a distorted space of the no longer completely real and not yet completely virtual, which demands an adaptation or reorganisation of old ideas and values. Bliss through algorithms, exposure in the transparency of the internet, fetishisation of data and perversion of old ideals are examples of inadequate answers to the demands of the new world, which can be found in Jakob Mödlinger's works in a critically ironic way.
Just Make Me a Computer confronts viewers with questions about the symbiosis of the short-livedness of man and the infinity of the internet and proclaims an end to this confusing episode of "no more" and "not yet" through dedication to becoming one with the computer.

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