8/11/2011
Zenita Komad
Jewish Museum Judenplatz, Wien
With the title 'Spirituality is not Shopping', that originates from one of the artist's drawings, Komad refers to cultural-historical motifs with a greater meaning, using numbers, words and pictures.
Zenita Komad
Spirituality is not Shopping
The Austrian artist Zenita Komad has been working on the subject of spirituality for many years. This always centers on the link between cultural-historical contexts and the individual‘s own existential-personal attitude.
She has left a lot of possibilities for interpretation open in the title of her exhibition at the Museum Judenplatz: “Spirituality is not shopping” originates from one of her drawings. At the same time, Zenita Komad refers to cultural-historical motifs with a greater meaning, using numbers, words and pictures. For example, the number 64 consists of eight times the number eight, which when depicted as an Arabic number in a lying position is also the symbol for infinity and plays a role in many religious and spiritual contexts.
A film by Rebekka Hagg for the exhibition is made up of 64 portraits of eight men and eight women, each of whom says a line of a poetic text. 121 drawings that Zenita Komad generally sees as pictorial – and sometimes also as literal/– records of thought processes are exhibited at the museum. Zenita Komad once again game used systematics in an installation in the main exhibition room – as she did before for Schachoper 2005 at the Kunsthalle wien or “When Heaven Kisses Earth” in 2008. She developed a game for several participants with the assistance of Rebekka Hagg, Thomas Amann and Markus Mittringer.
Image:Zenita Komad: Weckt der Nordwind aus dem Paradies den Hahn?, 2011, Mischtechnik auf Büttenpapier, 41 × 30 cm, Albertina, Wien, © Zenita Komad/VBK
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