(un)painted
dal 14/11/2002 al 5/1/2003
Segnalato da
14/11/2002
(un)painted
Moderna Galerija Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana
The exhibition (un)painted investigates the issue of the today’s function of a painted work of art and of painting in general. Its concept is based on the understanding of the difference between the two expressions for a painting introduced by the French theoretician Hubert Damish: tableau and picture.
Curator: Zdenka Badovinac
Opening view: Friday, 15 November 2002 at 8 p.m.
Press conference: Friday, 15 November 2002 at 11 a.m.
You are kindly invited to the press conference and the opening of the
exhibition. At the press conference, which will take place on Friday, 15
November 2002 at 11 a.m., at the Information centre of Moderna galerija,
the exhibition will be introduced by the curator and the director of
Moderna galerija Zdenka Badovinac. There will be present the following
artists: the IRWIN group, Valery Koshlyakov, Olaf Nicolai and Eliezer
Sonnenschein.
The exhibition (un)painted investigates the issue of the today’s function
of a painted work of art and of painting in general. Its concept is based
on the understanding of the difference between the two expressions for a
painting introduced by the French theoretician Hubert Damish: tableau and
picture. This difference also marks the distinction between the
traditional, two-dimensional painted surface (easel painting) and the
moving, electronic image. In practice, the exhibition’s concept originates
from several other contexts: from the collecting activities of the
collection’s owner Karlheinz Essl, a successful businessman and owner of
the Baumax company, who unlike other private collectors has always shared
his collection with the public; and from the function of painting today,
about which Zdenka Badovinac says that “as long as painting communicates,
it is infinite, and as along as the last viewer exists, painting will
continue to exist.â€
The exhibition (un)painted involves a special type of intervention and
dialogue between seven invited artists and art groups (Anonymous, IRWIN,
Johanna Kandl, Valery Koshlyakov, Olaf Nicolai, Michelangelo Pistoletto,
Eliezer Sonnenschein) and works from the Essl Collection (Lucio Fontana,
Hans Hartung, Pierre Soulages, Frank Stella, Jim Dine, Markus Prachensky,
Gerwald Rockenschaub, Hermann Nitsch, Arnulf Rainer, Sam Francis, Hans
Hartung, Georges Mathieu, Gerhard Richter).
Like the collection’s owner, who established a public museum for the
collection, these artists are re-displaying the paintings from the
collection together with a different perception of the works. In this way
they are not only establishing a dialogue with the collection; they are
also establishing a dialogue between two different philosophies of
painting: painting where everything happens on the two-dimensional surface
(tableau), which predominates in the collection, and painting that allows
the image not to remain faithful to the material medium (picture as
defined by Damish).
For the occasion of this exhibition, the Slovene artist Tadej Pogaèar &
the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary art will make an artistic
intervention to the national permanent collection of Moderna galerija. The
installation will be on view from Friday, 15 November 2002 till Sunday, 5
January 2003 at the Moderna galerija.
The exhibition (un)paited was organised in co-operation with the Essl
Collection, Klosterneuburg.
Moderna galerija Ljubljana
Opening hours:
Tuesday – Sunday 10 am to 6 pm, second day of the holiday 10 am – 1 pm.
Closed on Moday.
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