Multicultural Painting, alkyd on canvas, 2013
Repeating Pattern, pencil on archival paper, 2012
Ritual, alkyd and acrylic on canvas, 2012
Art Lover T-shirts, installation, printed textile, wire, 2012
I am an Artist…, video poem in edition of six, 11’47”, 2012
Photos from the exhibition Other Side of a Painting
Message to Gagosian, photo-performance, 2012
Dwelling in the Abstract Ghetto, alkyd on canvas, 2012
Heritage, alkyd on canvas, 2012
Exercise of Attention, video, 8’4’’, 2012
Exercise of Attention is an exercise for people who stutter, used every day to relax their speech apparatus and to train body and speech control. The stutterer ‘sings’ words by singing individual letters and ‘writing’ them in the air. Each ascending and descending line consists of eight tones in duration of two seconds per tone. This exercise emphasizes on controlling different aspects of body and speech apparatus at the same time, paying attention to timing, pitch, hand movement, control of lips, visualization of letters and words etc.
Deriving from his personal experience as stutterer as well as an artist, Kleindienst points out the dominance of form over context in contemporary art system and society in general, where social skills and representation often produce more personal and professional success than contextually relevant production. The video Exercise of Attention shows the artist practicing the speech exercise in order to improve his rhetorical skills (rather than, for example focusing on practicing skills that would contribute to production of a better artwork), while at the same time giving a statement on the respective issue (‘art is form’).
Boy with Butterflies, acrylic and print on canvas, 2012
Object, alkyd on canvas, 2011
On European Conscience and Totalitarianism, video, 2009
Joy of Life, alkyd on canvas, 2012
Goodbye Knut, acrylic on canvas, 2011
