In February 2008 Lisson Gallery will present Austrian artist Florian Pumh�sl�s first major solo exhibition in London.
The exhibition will feature a new 16mm film animation and new paintings from the series Modernology. The paintings on glass reproduce minimal geometric motifs, which refer to the abstract language of 20th century Dutch and Russian avant-gardes. His new animation employs techniques and motifs of early scientific and abstract experimental film-making, to continue the artist�s reflections on the cinematic apparatus and its implications.
Florian Pumh�sl�s work questions the universal claims of the language of modernism. He focuses particularly on strategies of appropriation, citation and montage and the research of art and architecture avant-gardes as the aesthetic equivalent to the mechanization of industrial production.
Pumh�sl was born in 1971 in Vienna and currently resides and works there. He studied at the H�here Grafische Bundes-lehr und Versuchsanstalt and at the Hochschule f�r angewandte Kunst, Vienna. He was awarded the CENTRAL- Kunstpreis in Cologne in 2003 and the Monsignore Otto Mauer-Preis in 2000. Solo exhibitions of his work include Neue Kunsthalle St Gallen, Zurich (2005); Galerie Krobath Wimmer, Vienna (2005); Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne (2005); K�lnischer Kunstverein, K�ln (2003); Secession, Vienna (2000); Saltzburger Kunstverein, Saltzburg (1998) and Grazer Kunstverein, Graz (1996). Group exhibitions include Como viver junto, 27. Bienal de S�o Paulo (2006); Die neue Sammlung, MUMOK, Vienna (2006); Model Modernisms, Artists Space, New York (2005); Occupying Space, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb (2005) and Dreams and Conflicts: The Dictatorship of the Viewer, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice (2003).
