Sabine Bitter / Helmut Weber
dal 8/7/2009 al 12/9/2009
Segnalato da
8/7/2009
Sabine Bitter / Helmut Weber
Landesgalerie, Linz
Right to the city. Since the late 1980s, their joint work has combined a perfectly natural approach to the widest range of media and pictorial technologies with an absolutely contemporary form of conceptual art. In their analytic and research-oriented practice, they follow the process of change and the effects of modernization and globalization on the city, architecture, and the creation of urban space in a great variety of geographical and socio-political arenas.
SABINE BITTER / HELMUT WEBER RIGHT, TO THE CITY with a commentary by
Jochen Becker The Landesgalerie Linz is presenting the most extensive
collection of works by Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber to be shown so far
in Austria.
Since the late 1980s, their joint work has combined a
perfectly natural approach to the widest range of media and pictorial
technologies with an absolutely contemporary form of conceptual art. In
their analytic and research-oriented practice, they follow the process of
change and the effects of modernization and globalization on the city,
architecture, and the creation of urban space in a great variety of
geographical and socio-political arenas.
The artists' pictorial
production, which repeatedly makes investigations into the interweaving of
art, politics and society, is overlaid with analyses of various media and
styles in the fields of architecture, film and urbanism. In their
projects, Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber provide fundamental contributions
to a re-evaluation and visualization of subjects that represent the
developments, promises and crises of political and social utopias.
At the
same time, their artistic work deals with – and reflects on – the
power and possibilities of interpretation in connection with the creation
of social spaces through pictures.
Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber invited
the Berlin critic and curator Jochen Becker to make a personal
contribution to their current exhibition. This will be displayed in the
fifth hall of the Landesgalerie as a spatial commentary on 'The Modern –
The Provider (Versorger Moderne): Red Vienna, New Frankfurt, Hitler
Buildings in Linz'. In addition to the artist"s book: 'Sabine Bitter /
Helmut Weber: Autogestion or Henri Lefebvre in New Belgrade'; with an
unpublished text of Henri Lefebvre, a foreword by Neil Smith and texts by
Ljiljana Blagojevic, Klaus Ronneberger und Zoran Eric. Verlag Fillip,
Vancouver und Sternberg Press, Berlin, 2009.
Furthermore, a comprehensive
catalogue with views of the presentation and a documentation of the
projects shown will be issued at the end of the exhibition. With a
documentary of projects by the artists from 1995 until 2009 for expample
about Novi Beograd, Caracas, Chicago and Vancouver. With texts by Martin
Hochleitner, Clint Burnham, Candice Hopkins, Jeff Derksen and others.
Sabine Bitter, Aigen in 1960, lives and works in Vienna and Vancouver.
Helmut Weber, Dorf an der Pram in 1957, lives and works in Vienna.
They
have worked together on projects dealing with the city, architecture and
the politics of space and representation since 1993 and have been awarded
numerous international grants as well as teaching and research contracts.
Image: Sabine Bitter/Helmut Weber: aus der Serie "Autogestion, or Henri Lefebvre in New Belgrade", Offsetdruck bzw. Fotografie, 100 x 76 cm, 2009
Press contact
Sigrid Lehner, Tel: +43-732-774482-53 s.lehner@landesmuseum.at
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