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2/3/2011

Four exhibitions

Museum Moderner Kunst MUMOK, Wien

Florian Pumhösl
Curated by Matthias Michalka

Florian Pumhösl, whose work in recent years has met with international recognition, will develop an exhibition showing new works at MUMOK. At the center of Pumhösl’s most recent production are abstract film and painting and their interaction with space. For this exhibition at MUMOK, he places methods of recording and transmission at the center of attention. On view are two installations as well as a comprehensive cycle of images.

Florian Pumhösl’s new film installation Expressive Rhythmus is based on the idea of using an abstract image as the starting point for a film. In so doing, Pumhösl refers to Alexander Rodchenko’s 1942 gouache Expressive Rhythm from 1942, which shockingly anticipates Jackson Pollock’s style of painting and is a unique testimony to links between gestural abstraction, automation, and trauma.

Rodchenko’s Expressive Rhythm series was preceded by photographs he took during the 1930s in Karelia (primarily landscapes) in which questions of abstraction were also central; these provide the direct visual point of reference of Pumhösl’s film engaging with the work. The 35mm film installation is a dialog between the infernal landscapes of Karelia and the compositions of Charles Ives, in which Pollock’s notion of nature and abstraction is reflected at an earlier point of history. This work emerged in collaboration with Hannes Böck (camera) and Marino Formenti (music).

Figural studies are the subject of Pumhösl’s second film project, a film hybrid between abstract animation and a dance film. The goal of this film project is developing a kind of 'figure book,' a catalog of abstract figures and dance figures that allows the foundations of spatial experience in abstract film and in modern stage to become the object of investigation.

In a 48-image cycle entitled Diminution, Florian Pumhösl engages with the possibilities of portraiture, the echo of individual characteristics and profiles, in the framework of an abstract vocabulary of forms. In so doing, a 'society' of images understood spatially, a kind of post-individualist score. The title Diminution is borrowed from musical compositional theory, and refers to the repetition and diminution of a motive.

Themed Tour March 19, April 30, May 28., 2.00 pm
Exhibition Talk May 12, 7.00 pm

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Tacita Dean
(Ausschnitt) The Line of Fate
Curated by Achim Hochdörfer

Tacita Dean who was born 1965 in Canterbury and lives in Berlin is concerned with historical processes and the wealth of narratives from past times that can be evoked in the present day. After a number of retrospectives in the past few years–at the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris, for instance, at the Schaulager in Basel or the Guggenheim Museum in New York–Tacita Dean will be presenting a new work group in her first solo exhibition in Austria. Its subject matter circles the creative potential of recording systems.

The title of the show plays with multiple readings of line drawing, the path of 'lifelines' and the linearity of filmic narratives and image sequences. Just as lines can connect up different points, the artist connects up different media–film, photography, drawing, and books–in her work. She compares film to 'drawing with light', she overpaints photographs, and photographs drawings. In her most recent film work Dean concentrates on the subject of the creative processes of representation: in Craneway Event (2009) she documents Merce Cunningham’s rehearsals of a performance in a modernist Ford factory near San Francisco and, in two films about Giorgio Morandi, she plumbs the relationship between the real objects in his still life and their drawn, multiply-overlaid markings on the work surface. A film about Cy Twombly which is being made in cooperation with the MUMOK will be shown for the first time.

Themed Tour March 26, May 14, 2.00 pm
Filmscreening / Artist’s Talk May 5, 6, 9.00 pm
Location: Austrian Film Museum
Curator-guided Tour May 7, 2.00 pm

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Aktionsraum 1
Curated by Rainer Fuchs, Sophie Haaser

In 1969 Eva Madelung (patron), Peter Nemetschek (artist photographer) and Alfred Gulden (theatre studies) established Aktionsraum 1 as an avant-garde collective in Munich. They thus created a space for young artists in which conventional works and presentational forms from the art-world were to be avoided in favour of providing an effective public platform for the new performative and institutionally and socially critical thrust of the arts.

Over the next year, 50 projects concerned with actionism, performance, and Arte Povera took place in a rented and empty factory on Waltherstrasse. Artists such as Klaus Rinke, HA Schult, Jochen Gerz, Christian Attersee, Günter Brus, Hermann Nitsch, Giuseppe Penone, Braco Dimitrijevic, Ben Vautier, Günter Saree, Luciano Fabro, Stanley Brouwn, Gruppe OHO and others tried out alternative and innovative art forms in this off-space precursor. The list of artists also reveals the international standing and avant-garde orientation of the enterprise. The opening on the 18th and 19th October 1969 featured Klaus Rinke, Lindow-Borlat and Tony Morgan. Amongst the most legendary of the action were the Zerreißprobe [Endurance Test] by Günter Brus and Hermann Nitsch’s 7. Abreaktionsspiel [7th Reaction Game].

The Aktionsraum also functioned as a field of experimentation for participative and communicative projects that included the public and took into account art education by means of art in the form of lectures and discussions. Project failures were as much part of the enterprise as the possibility of new ways of experiencing including the ignorance or enmity of a section of the public and its authorities. What remains of the mainly processual and actionistic works are films and photographs as well as documentary and recorded texts and notes which to some extent reflect the reaction of the public and media. Alfred Gulden saved the works and documents and handed them over to collector Egidio Marzona. It is his archive which forms the basis of the MUMOK exhibition that traces the complexity–as regards both content and organisation–of this chapter of more recent, and in many respects transdisciplinary, art history. Films, posters, sketches, letter, and documentary photographs will be on display.

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Maksymilian Cieslak

This winner of the Henkel Art.Award. 2010 is the Polish native Maksymilian Cieslak. His cinematic works are characterized by a high level of narrative intensity and originality. Cieslak works with the tools offered by silent films, the aesthetics of amateur movies on YouTube as well as the elements of found footage. In this regard, he is able to approach film as a medium in a completely undogmatic and sometimes humorous manner. He uses the history of motion pictures, myths of media history such as Yuri Gagarin's flight in space or a Doors concert as material to create a highly unconventional cinematic language. Some of his works, such as Doctor Faustus or Cloud Nine, can be seen as extremely angry satires on the art scene.

Press contact
Eva Engelberger - Barbara Hammerschmied
P +43-1-525 00-1400, 1450 F +43-1-52500-1300 press@mumok.at

Image: Florian Pumhösl, (Ausschnitt) Expressiver Rhythmus, 2010, © the artist 2011

Opening: May 3, 2010–7.00 p.m.

Museum Moderner Kunst MUMOK
Museumsplatz 1 - Wien
Daily: 10.00 a.m.­–6.00 p.m.
Thu: 10.00 a.m.­–9.00 p.m.
Admission
Normal: € 9,- Reduced: € 7,20
Seniors, Groups of 10 or more, Club Ö1, Wien-Karte, DER STANDARD-subscribers
Reducrd: € 6,50
Students up to 27 years of age, compulsory alternative draft, unemployed
Free entry: Children and young persons under 19, members of the Association of Friends of the Visual Arts, Annual Ticket owners, MUMOK Friends members, IAA-members, bearers of the 'Hunger auf Kunst und Kultur' ID card.

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