Peter Jellitsch

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(photos: © Leonhard Hilzensauer / except photo no.1/7: © Lukas Gansterer )

All photos: © Leonhard Hilzensauer

All photos: © Leonhard Hilzensauer

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All photos: © Leonhard Hilzensauer

All photos: © Leonhard Hilzensauer

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In the Burgkapelle, Peter Jellitsch takes into account the central fresco by Ferdinand Fromiller. He selects individual parts of the Baroque trompe-l'œil painting - renderings of intangible content, atmospheres, moods, interpersonal connections - and confronts them with an abstract picture analysis. The specific elaborated fragments are shown as drawings and objects on display tables which bring to mind study situations. The viewer then relates the transformations to the original.
Excerpt from the folder „It could be like this…“, a text by Christine Wetzlinger-Grundnig.

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Peter Jellitsch is an exponent of a young generation whose perception of reality has undergone a radical change, due to new technology, and who quite naturally spread out their fields of work and ideas in new dimensions. This expansion of traditional boundaries, together with a critical observation of reality, are prerequisites for his work, and characterise the artist's interdisciplinary, integrative way of thinking as well as his methods and techniques, which on the one hand are scientific and strictly mathematical, and on the other absolutely artistic and aesthetic. The pictorial result is merely one aspect of Jellitch's comprehensive spectrum of activities. It is, however, the immediate, compelling result which, detached from the intellectual, conceptual process, convincingly gains in autonomy.

Over recent years, virtual space has increasingly become a field of experiment in art. If initially the new techniques and networks were used as tools, today this space itself stands at our disposal, understood as a relevant dimension of reality and determined not only by matter but, in this context, also by invisible elements and systems. What Peter Jellitsch finds interesting are phenomena which exist not physically and consistently, but functionally – such as fields of electromagnetic waves, current patterns, or the swarm behaviour of birds and fish, as in the present work "STB/S 16“.

The artist is not concerned with creating a copy of the digital image of a piece of basic scientific research; his interest, as he puts it, is in "establishing a dialogue between virtual processes and the actual physical space". The artist approaches electronic simulation through drawing by hand, transferring it, by means of the potential of his physical body, into an analogue result, thus concretising the digital information of the virtual sphere.

Christine Wetzlinger-Grundnig (Director, Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten)

Peter Jellitsch’s Data Drawings are based on what has become an indispensable component of our modern-day (work) life: the Internet and the constant availability of a wireless connection to it. The artist repetitively translates measurable data from Wi-Fi connections in the form of ping, download, and upload speeds into formally complex drawings reminiscent of landscape topographies in pencil and acrylic. He lends form to the invisible digital processes around us and declares them the starting point and necessary basis of his work as an artist. Each Data Drawing is a snapshot and a survey of a specific place at a certain point in time. The numerical values precisely measured with an iPhone app have the appearance of an abstract artistic gesture on the paper with the unmistakable variance of human imprecision. The physical act of drawing is combined with the ubiquitous flows of information that we use and create at the same time: a potentially infinite and never complete creation of value from nothing.

Excerpt from „Without You I’m Nothing“, a text by Marlies Wirth.