Lois & Franziska Weinberger
dal 11/9/2006 al 13/10/2006
Segnalato da
11/9/2006
Lois & Franziska Weinberger
Galerie Martin Janda, Wien
Ruderalsaatgut, 1990-2006. The current exhibit focuses on new works which were executed outdoors, or which are based on intensive research in diverse regions and landscapes. In these projects, the artists set out plants in remote, uninhabited areas and wastelands, continued to care for them, and documented their development.
Ruderalsaatgut, 1990-2006
From September 12 until October 18, 2006, the Galerie Martin Janda is
showing new works by Lois and Franziska Weinberger. Since the acclaimed
exhibit in the Vienna's Museum des 20. Jahrhundert (Museum of the
Twentieth Century) in 2000, their work has been shown in museums and art
institutions in Europe and in Japan. In 1999, they began to document the
long-standing collaboration by crediting both names.
The current exhibit focuses on works by Lois and Franziska Weinberger
which were executed outdoors, or which are based on intensive research
in diverse regions and landscapes. In these projects, which typically
continue for a number of years, the artists set out plants in remote,
uninhabited areas and wastelands, continued to care for them, and
documented their development. On the gallery's ground floor seed
collections are presented in salvaged wooden tables refashioned as
display cases: collected, dried, designated, identified, reworked, and
assembled. The collection of ruderal seeds - from plants which grow at
dumps or at the roadside - raises issues regarding society and
community. Superimpositions and parallels which arise are not
articulated in a direct manner; they do not lend themselves to
decipherable dissent or societal analysis.
As second large group of works, we are showing Pflanzenfarbtafeln,
2005/06. Eyebright, laburnum, buckhorn and mugwort - plant names such as
these constitute the formal point of departure for this work. The text
is distorted and deformed with the assistance of a copying machine; the
results are then transferred to diverse materials. These boards are then
painted in the colours of the respective plants' blossoms. Traces which
bark beetles have left in earlier works are intentionally reproduced
here with technical handiwork. Once again, what at first appears to be
random is in fact subject to a straightforward system.
Lois Weinberger, born 1947, lives and works in Vienna. Franziska
Weinberger, born 1953, is an art historian and artist, and also lives in
Vienna.
Selected shows: 2006: Arnolfini, Bristol (GB), Toyota Museum, Toyota
(JP), 21st Century Museum, Kanazawa (JP); 2005: S.M.A.K., Gent (BE);
2003: Kunstverein, Hannover (DE); 2002: Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
(IE), Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck (AT); 2000: Freud Museum, London
(GB); 1999: Watai-Um Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (JP)
Opening: Tuesday, September 12, 2006, 7 p.m.
Galerie Martin Janda
Eschenbachgasse 11 - Wien
Opening hours: Tue-Fri 1 - 6 p.m., Sat 11 a.m. - 3 p.m.