Angelus Schnabl

Angelus Schnabl (1997) is a visual artist born in Vienna Austria. He is currently based in The Hague where he graduated from the Photography department at the Royal Academy of Art The Hague (KABK) in 2023. On both ends, as a photographer and sculptor, Schnabl investigates recognisable objects and found materials. He takes a closer look at their functionality and tends to rethink their actual purpose through an abstraction of their materiality and form.

The work Sound of Silence is a contemplation of opposites. Two elements are colliding or eventually already did collide. A symbolic image of a stone which drops on the waters surface creating an almost perfect circle. The axe with its traditional power creates a tension between the image and object in which they seemingly fit together.

The work Porcelain Horse is an image of an heroic symbol, the white horse of power. A symbol depicted in multiple paintings such as Napoleon Crossing the Alps on his white horse. The Ear takes us on a journey of our surrounding. The organs of the ear for the purpose of hearing but also seeing. Perceiving our environment through our organs of seeing and hearing. The bird attached on the right corner of the image visualises a sense of freedom but also a radiation of the senses. Together they are two different senses, to hear and to see.