Sculpture
dal 13/10/2004 al 20/2/2004
Segnalato da
Lynda Benglis
Alighiero Boetti
Thomas Demand
Tom Claassen
Keith Edmier
Urs Fischer
Peter Fischli
David Weiss
Giuseppe Gabellone
Isa Genzken
Matt King
Martin Kippenberger
Takehito Koganezawa
Tetsumi Kudo
Sarah Lucas
Mark Manders
David Moises
Richard Prince
Jason Reppert
Medardo Rosso
Thomas Schutte
Peter Senoner
Erik Steinbrecher
Yoshihiro Suda
Rebecca Warren
Franz West
Bill Woodrow
Erwin Wurm
13/10/2004
Sculpture
Kunsthalle Wien, Wien
Precarious Realism between Melancholia and Comedy. The exhibition celebrates realism, yet also questions the cogency of realism. The theme is not one of true-to-nature depictions. Sculpture becomes a mirror of another reality – a reality that is tired of beautiful appearances, which turns more to the intermediary tones, to a world of internalized fantasy, comic, and melancholy. Sculpture draws back from the triviality of the familiar and expresses feelings in a precarious and innovative world of new forms.
The exhibition celebrates realism, yet also questions the cogency of realism. The theme is not one of true-to-nature depictions. Sculpture becomes a mirror of another reality – a reality that is tired of beautiful appearances, which turns more to the intermediary tones, to a world of internalized fantasy, comic, and melancholy. Sculpture draws back from the triviality of the familiar and expresses feelings in a precarious and innovative world of new forms.
The exhibition pursues two journeys: the will to see the human subject act in paradoxical and strange interactions with a multifunctional and often resistant environment, and the desire to present strange, animated worlds of objects and machines, which present the onlooker with a latent, intimate parallel world.
Artists: Lynda Benglis, Alighiero Boetti, Thomas Demand, Tom Claassen, Keith Edmier, Urs Fischer, Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Giuseppe Gabellone, Isa Genzken, Matt King, Martin Kippenberger, Takehito Koganezawa, Tetsumi Kudo, Sarah Lucas, Mark Manders, David Moises, Richard Prince, Jason Reppert, Medardo Rosso, Thomas Schütte, Peter Senoner, Erik Steinbrecher, Yoshihiro Suda, Rebecca Warren, Franz West, Bill Woodrow, Erwin Wurm.
Press conference: Thu, 14 October 2004, 10 am, hall 1
Opening: Thu, 14 October 2004, 7 pm, hall 1
15 October 2004 – 20 February 2005, hall 1
media-cooperation with the daily newspaper
Image: Thomas Schütte, Stahlfrau Nr. 12, 2003, photo: Florian Holzer / Courtesy Galerie Schöttle, München
Kunsthalle Wien
New Building Museumsplatz 1, A - 1070
Wien