Paolo Chiasera. Condensed Heidegger's Hut Video

Paolo Chiaseras work is a process; not only a process developing in the frame of one single show or
a series of exhibitions, but also his entire body of work should be viewed as an ongoing process.
Chiasera develops his unique ideas of an evolving process by studying human history and
philosophy and examining their, sometimes unimagined, expressions in subsequent events and
schools of thought.

For his first solo exhibition with PSM, Chiasera explores the theories of the German philosopher
Martin Heidegger (18891976). In Heideggers most famous work, Being and Time (1927), Being
is examined in direct relation with the flow of Time. In Heideggers view‚ the existential and
ontological constitution in the totality of Being is grounded in temporality.

Transporting these thoughts on Being and Time into the materiality of visual art, Chiaseras solo
exhibition demonstrates his own view of Being in time expressed in two acts. Looking at the
philosophers own life, Chiasera builds an exterior model of Heideggers hut in Todtnauberg, where
most of his work Being and Time was written. This model will be constructed at a vacant lot close to
PSM. The interior of the hut will be reflected within the gallery space itself. In the two acts of
Chiaseras opening, those present will observe the hut condense, becoming de-constructed/reconstructed into a paiting.