The Wall
dal 4/12/2007 al 26/1/2008
Segnalato da
Elisabeth Czihak
Bernhard Gwiggner
Thomas Horl
Nabila Irshaid
Matthias Klos
Marianne Lang
Annelies Oberdanner
Isa Riedl
Christine Scherrer
Gabriele Fulterer
Elisabeth Schmirl
Stefan Heizinger
Barbara Clausen
4/12/2007
The Wall
Salzburger Kunstverein - Kunstlerhaus, Salzburg
The mural works by the participating artists, in their unique, processual and performative diversity of form and appearance, address the relationship between remembrance, body and space.
Participants: Elisabeth Czihak, Bernhard Gwiggner, Thomas Hörl, Nabila Irshaid, Matthias Klos, Marianne Lang, Annelies Oberdanner, Isa Riedl, Christine Scherrer/Gabriele Fulterer, Elisabeth Schmirl/Stefan Heizinger.
What underlies “The Wall” – the annual exhibition 2007/2008 of the members of the Salzburg Kunstverein – is the basic question of what expectations and needs are associated with the members’ exhibition. In keeping with the curatorial concepts over the past two years of “staging a scene,”this year’s series engages with the idea of a “playfully collaborative” approach. At the same time, the conceptual focus is on the artistic gesture in wall painting and the way its inherent tension between original and reproduction, ephemerality and permanence, chance and concept is manifested.
The mural works by the participating artists, in their unique, processual and performative diversity of form and appearance, address the relationship between remembrance, body and space. The site-specific space design, conceived especially for this exhibition, makes tangible the tension, dominant in the 20th and 21st centuries, between that which is “live” and that which is mediatized. The wall that holds everything together is a window into another world, and becomes the site for a game of “Cadavre Exquis”.*
This year, the Salzburg Kunstverein will again be presenting the 3,000-euro Award of Sponsorship together with the Province of Salzburg. The jury consists of Barbara Clausen, curator of the annual exhibition, Fritz Rücker, artist as well as Anselm Wagner, art historian and critic. The prize will be awarded during the exhibition’s opening ceremony.
Art Talk with the curator and artists of the exhibition (Christine Scherrer, Gabriele Fulterer, Thomas Hörl, Elisabeth Czihak ) Thursday, December 13th, 2007, 7 pm
Press meeting: Wednesday, December 5th, 2007, 11 a.m.
Opening: Wednesday, December 5th, 2007, 7 p.m.
Salzburger Kunstverein, Kunstlerhaus
Hellbrunner Strasse 3, Salzburg
Free admission