On the Hermeneutics of Art

The project “The Stature of Waiting” by the American-Austrian artist Daniel Domig gave me a unique opportunity to compose a text which has the ambition to provide a philosophical theory of “what happens when the artist creates”. Daniel and I cooperate on many other projects in which he offers his paintings for my texts. This time, the interaction changed, and I created a text based on his paintings…

The “Stature of Waiting” was presented within the “Laity Lodge” - an interdisciplinary space in Texas, USA where artists and philosophers/theologians meet.

Daniel Domig was born 1983 in Vancouver, Canada. He studied Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria, (2001-2006) where he now lives with his wife and their 4 children. Daniel has exhibited widely in both Europe and North America over the past two decades.

Among his solo and group shows: The Quiet Afterword, Städtisches Museum Engen, Engen, Germany; Matter of a Burning Body, unttld contemporary, Vienna, Austria; The Heart is a prideful Beast, Warburton Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland; All words Were once Animals, 33 Orchard, NEW YORK, NYC (solo);  Five Rooms, Acf NY; Triennale LINZ 1.0, Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria; With all the Things we Build and Make, Thrust Projects, New York; Daniel is currently preparing his solo-show “Where Hopes Infest”, at Diana Lowenstein, Miami.