Overview

"The tuba made me realize that musical instruments are very interesting sculptural media. The tube that carries the sound can also be the tube of a sculpture. That can be mixed, and that's how you can soften boundaries."

Luser's most important tool is the stroke. The line he draws is fine and precise; it becomes a pattern, a formula, an image, a word, a narrative. Like a clear thought, it makes connections. A circuit diagram emerges that defines levels, elaborates structures, establishes relationships, and enables orientation. A thought landscape of stories, assertions, impressions and associations spreads out. The eye follows the line closely, lets itself be carried over hill and dale and gets lost, while the brain strands strive for an overview in order to keep an eye on the whole. Each new stroke formulates a new horizon, eyes and thoughts hurry towards it, they will never reach it, because another pulls them away, a word pushes itself into the way and another door opens. Behind it threatens a new world, the strands of the circuit diagram twist, perception becomes a labyrinth and associations gallop.

 

Daniel Baumann

Works
Biography

lives and works in Vienna

born 1976 in Graz

 

1995-1999​​ Industrial Design, FH Joanneum, Graz 
1999-2001 Conceptual Art with Renee Green, ​​Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
1999-2004 Visual Media with Brigitte Kowanz, ​​University of Applied Arts, Vienna

 

2021 Dagmar Chobot Skulpturenpreis 
2007​​ Boston Consulting & Belvedere Contemporary Art Award
2006 ​​T-Mobile studio scholarship

2005​​ Paris-scholarship of the Federal Chancellery
2003​​ Production grant of the city Graz and State scholarship Visual Arts
2002​​ Fred-Adlmüller scholarship of the University of Applied Arts Vienna
2001 ​​Work scholarship of the Federal Chancellery and Air-port scholarship Forum Stadtpark, Graz

 

WORKS IN PUBLIC SPACES (selection)

 

2022 Democracy trumpet, frieze with horn and scales, Parliament Austria, Vienna
2019 Vom Steigen des Wertes der Zeit, Austrian National Bank, Vienna
2018 Silent Post, Post Office at Rochus, Vienna
2016 Gemischter Satz, stage design Wiener Konzerthaus, Vienna
2015 Luftgarten, Provincial Hospital Graz
2013 Raumbandoneon Tangosaurus, Music Theatre Linz

2010 Molecular Organ, New Chemistry, University of Technology Graz
2003 Lichtschreibmaschine, north facade of the Telekom high-rise building, Graz
2000 rec, light installation (with Nikolaus Gansterer) on the facade of the University of Applied Arts, Vienna

Exhibitions
Art Fairs