For two decades, Vienna-based sculptor Hans Schabus has been making artworks that self-reflectively play with his experiences of the cosmos. His own surroundings are often the key reference with which he builds ideas into physical manifestation.
Exhibition The Long Road from Tall Trees to Tall Houses
Artist(s) Hans Schabus
Venue Salzburger Kunstverein
Artist(s) Hans Schabus
Venue Salzburger Kunstverein
In a quasi-journalistic manner, this new exhibition itself emerges from the artist’s recent reflective and poetic excursion through space and time. Last summer, Hans Schabus journeyed across the United States on his bicycle. Each day, at high noon, he stopped to document his whereabouts and later sent a postcard home from his overnight stay. This daily ritual informs the sculptural installation in the exhibition.

Hans Schabus - Potatocity

Hans Schabus - The Long Road from Tall Trees to Tall Houses (June 19th, 2015), 2015
pigment print on paper, postcards, grey board, museum board, glass, aluminum, wood, paint, various mounting material, 86,2 × 65,8 × 2,6 cm
pigment print on paper, postcards, grey board, museum board, glass, aluminum, wood, paint, various mounting material, 86,2 × 65,8 × 2,6 cm

Exhibition view „Hans Schabus“, Salzburger Kunstverein 2016. Photo: Andrew Phelps

Hans Schabus - The Long Road from Tall Trees to Tall Houses (July 30th, 2015), 2015
pigment print on paper, postcards, grey board, museum board, glass, aluminum, wood, paint, various mounting material, 86,2 × 65,8 × 2,6 cm
pigment print on paper, postcards, grey board, museum board, glass, aluminum, wood, paint, various mounting material, 86,2 × 65,8 × 2,6 cm

Hans Schabus - The Long Road from Tall Trees to Tall Houses (July 13th, 2015), 2015

Exhibition view „Hans Schabus“, Salzburger Kunstverein 2016. Photo: Andrew Phelps

Exhibition view „Hans Schabus“, Salzburger Kunstverein 2016. Photo: Andrew Phelps

Hans Schabus - The Long Road from Tall Trees to Tall Houses (June 22nd, 2015), 2015

Exhibition view „Hans Schabus“, Salzburger Kunstverein 2016. Photo: Andrew Phelps

Exhibition view „Hans Schabus“, Salzburger Kunstverein 2016. Photo: Andrew Phelps