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24/6/2014

A Singular Form

Wiener Secession, Wien

Curated by Pablo Lafuente

With works by Martha Araújo, Ricardo Basbaum, Dustin Ericksen, Asger Jorn (with Gérard Franceschi),
Hilary Lloyd, Asier Mendizabal, Peter Madsen, Bruno Munari, Nicole Wermers, and a few other things

A Singular Form brings together works of art and 'everyday' objects in order to pursue potential uses and meanings that go beyond those usually assigned to them. On display at Secession, these objects should not only propose a particular approach or specific use by virtue of their mere materiality and compositional form; they should also enact a release from such determinations.

A critical engagement with the form and potential meanings of art and non-art objects might be an all too generic and abstract undertaking. A Singular Form attempts to make it concrete by focusing on the sculptural form, accompanied by a displacement from the sculptural to the functional. This shift intends to present the material structures of the objects as part of a changing network of relations or a sequence of activities (such as contemplation, action, use, and transformation) in which they serve, alternately, as the basis, as the catalyst, or as the result.

The exhibition poses the following two questions: How concrete or how specific can an object of mediation be? And to what extent can it be abstracted and made generic? Attempts at responding are made through a variety of objects, such as a Viking mastefisk and a kølsvin, constructed by Peter Madsen; a number of photographic contact prints from Asger Jorn and Gérard Franceschi's project 10,000 Years of Nordic Folk Art; a Venetian forcola; a video projection by Hilary Lloyd; Martha Araújo's wearable geometric canvas; a 'portable' sculpture by Bruno Munari; a stretcher; a series of spoons by Nicole Wermers; a travelling object and its housing structure by Ricardo Basbaum; a batea mapuche; a wallpaper and modular sculpture by Dustin Ericksen; and a number of sculptural pieces, prints and support units by Asier Mendizabal. The display frames and organises these objects as both things and images in order to heighten their potential agency—a power that questions fixed attributions of function and thus also alters the conditions under which life can occur around them.

The display frames and organises the shown objects as both things and images in order to heighten their potential agency—a power that questions fixed attributions of function and thus also alters the conditions under which life can occur around them.

Much of the thinking and doing around this exhibition has been developed in very close collaboration with Asier Mendizabal.

Pablo Lafuente was born in Spain in 1976 and lives in London.

A book with essays by Franz Boas, Roger Caillois, Fernand Deligny, Asger Jorn, and Pablo Lafuente will be published in conjunction with the exhibition.

Image: Asier Mendizabal, Untitled (Forcola #1), 2013

Karin Jaschke
Secession
Friedrichstraße 12, 1010 Wien
Tel: +43-1-5875307-10, Fax: +43-1-5875307-34
presse@secession.at

Press conference: Wednesday, June 25, 10am
Opening: Wednesday, June 25, 7pm

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