Through Austrian eyes
Roland Langitz expects his objects and performance work to be contemplated in depth. At Jacksue he is showing some small meditative combination prints and drawing fragments in red and black, he wish to rework and recover the moral and transcendental traces that remain in the tradition of European art even at its most pessimistic and postmodern.  The videotape of the collaborative performance he undertook on a previous visit to Australia, has been carefully edited and processed to articulate each image as video, not merely performance documentary. Langitz makes clear that one does not make art only from media or techniques but from life and death issues such as our complete dependence on the natural world. One section of the video parallels the act of giving birth with the operation of a photocopier. Suprisingly, it does not collaps into farce but opens up the absolute terror that mechanical thinking still holds in wait for us.

art as a means of comment.....
From anicent times art has always reflected culture. This intrinsic beliefs and social issues of old are known to us now through the art of each civilication. This window in time gives us more than words describe life in any one age, it gives us a feeling of how people conducted their lives and how they felt towards each other. In recent times we have become more aware of art as a means of comment. Manet`s "Luncheon on the Grass" seems a worthy painting of preimpressionist style, but the mere fact that he placed an undraped woman adjacent to two men befitted in suits caused an outcry.
 
To gain an understanding of an artists intention, we must first discard our naturally conservative nature and open our eyes fully to the new and different. It is only when the artists message becomes garbled that we can be justified in complaint.