The Continental Gallery

Focus Daily renders the works of six young contemporary artists – Lukas Gansterer, Matthias Koenigswieser, Ulrich Nausner, Thomas Rhube, Clemens Wolf from Austria and Joseph Kosir from Netherlands - whose prolific and joint collaboration lead to their first collective exhibition in Los Angeles. Diverse media (photography, video, installation and painting) merge to set conceptual images of an exposed contemporaneousness, engaging relations between individual and outer world, investigating and challenging dominant rules and social conventions, exploring new communicative visual imagery.

CONTINENTAL GALLERY, 408 South Spring Street - Los Angeles, CA 90013

Opening: Sat. March 6th 6pm – 9pm

Downtown Artwalk: Thur. March 11th 12pm – 9pm

Period: March 7th – March 28th

Opening hours: March 9th – March 11th 4pm - 6pm (Meet the Artists)

March 14th – March 28th by appointment only – call\txt 213 308 8896

For press information or appointments please contact:

Gemma Sonego 213 308 8896, g.contemporanea@gmail.com

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Photographer Lukas Gansterer is the author of the provocative 2009 photo campaign for the Austrian fashion label "Wendy & Jim & DJ HELL". His work focuses on combining realness, acrimony and aesthetic, fast-forwarding imaginative boundaries <www.lukasgansterer.com

Matthias Koenigswieser is director of photography of music videos, short films, documentary, commercials and style photography. His impelling creativity extends towards conceptual video installations, seeking limitless opportunities for creating multiple linkages between sound and visual imagery, aspiring to apply his creative energy within the sphere of mainstream feature film production.<www.antiparticle.tv

Joseph Kosir stretches his work through diverse media (printmaking, streetart, site specific installations, audiovisual art, VJ-ing), unconcerned of the limits and constrictions set to them, and actively combining concept and aesthetics, contemporary image culture with traditional and experimental techniques.<www.dirtybrownvisuals.com

Ulrich Nausner creative output focuses on poetry and textual art, exerting an ironic and linguistic evidence to engage the viewers to question the relationship between art, advertisement, sponsorship and the influence of commercial mechanisms on cultural production. His poems and advertising slogans are condensed into a volume of poetry entitled Free Poetry, published in 2006.<www.ulrichnausner.com

Thomas Rhube defines formal concepts through graphic art and painting. He creates typefaces, intellectual property of words-concepts. Color induces subjective moods, not its perceptions, but its composition. For Rhube, colors – derived from accurate pigment/binder combinations or reduced to black and white, neutral recipient of every color – and words result in gestural abstract actions.<www.thomasrhube.com

Clemens Wolf explores post-industrial metropolis, detecting dismissed public spaces behind fences, abandoned warehouses and obsolete industrial buildings’ skeletons. Combining traditional oil painting and spray stencil technique, he transposes in negative on canvas their remains, the waste and chaos of declined modern urban landscapes, giving them new identities, representational and abstract at once, emphasizing light-dark contrast effects.His paintings evoke the desolate destruction of modern ruins, capturing their state of decay and imprinting their images into the collective memory as ominous testament of the times, places freed from control, visionary stages. Images open to interpretation,that triggers different experiences in the viewers, stimulating their imagination.< www.clemenswolf.com