Lucas Bosch Gelatin
dal 15/7/2011 al 5/11/2011
Segnalato da
15/7/2011
Lucas Bosch Gelatin
Kunsthalle Krems, Krems-Stein
Twenty high-carat loans from the Vienna Albertina, the Musee des Beaux-Arts in Dijon, the Vienna Kunsthistorisches Museum, the Graphic Collection of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, the Dommuseum Salzburg, the Princely collection of Liechtenstein and works from private collections will interact with their immediate neighbours, works by Sarah Lucas and Gelatin, and evoke the epoch spanning fantastic imaginations that are the main impetus to art. And for the first time late medieval artists such as Hieronymus Bosch and his successors are juxtaposed against the installations and sculptures of Lucas and Gelatin as models for their ideas.
After their spectacular presentation at this year's Biennale in Venice, Gelatin arrived a week ago at Kunsthalle Krems together with the British artist Sarah Lucas, to set up the ‘Lucas Bosch Gelatin’ exhibition.
The upcoming show is the most labor-intensive and time-consuming ever to be realized at the Kunsthalle Krems. Sarah Lucas, a prominent exponent of the ‘Young British Artist’ scene of the late 80s and 90s, and Gelatin – a group consisting of two Krems-born artists, Wolfgang Gantner and Florian Reither, as well as of Ali Janka and Tobias Urban – have arrived at Kunsthalle Krems with an entourage of around 20 assistants to write exhibition history, or as Sarah Lucas puts it, “This show will be legendary”.
The temporary workshop is the scene of intense activity, as the exhibition is fundamentally being created on site and has to be specially tailored to the spaces. Mixers are running round the clock, cement moulds of body parts are being made, the exhibition spaces are being taken apart and reassembled for the show, and in the woodshop bizarre sculptures are taking shape. This fruitful collaboration has, over the past week, transformed fantastic sculptures of old chairs, furniture, polystyrene, cardboard, plaster, cement, bricks, mattresses, bed frames, metal grills, nylon tights and old bathtubs and toilets into works of art.
Kunsthalle Krems is being redesigned as a space to be experienced and a zone for the senses where the enigmatic chambers of wonders on the dark side of reason are transformed into a new universe of exhibition performance. The production of art images remains ambivalently between the real and the unreal. Eros and Death lurk in a multiform territory, in animal symbols and endless fragmented body parts.
Apart from one object, a huge moveable lower arm from the collection of her fellow artist Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas is newly creating all the other works on site. Together with 40 Gelatin works from the last ten years (plasticine images, drawings, photo collages and objects) the artist group develops the majority of their exhibits on site.
The ‘Lucas Bosch Gelatin’ exhibit will open its doors at 6pm on the 16th of July in Kunsthalle Krems. This pushing of the envelope attempts to present the bewitchingly disturbing imagery of the artists as fluent fantastic, stunning imaginings that awake yearnings. And for the first time late medieval artists such as Hieronymus Bosch and his successors are juxtaposed against the installations and sculptures of Lucas and Gelatin as models for their ideas.
Twenty high-carat loans from the Vienna Albertina, the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Dijon, the Vienna Kunsthistorisches Museum, the Graphic Collection of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, the Dommuseum Salzburg, the Princely collection of Liechtenstein and works from private collections will interact with their immediate neighbours, works by Sarah Lucas and Gelatin, and evoke the epoch spanning fantastic imaginations that are the main impetus to art. The basic concept for the show, which can be seen at Kunsthalle Krems until 6th November 2011, originates from the Kunsthalle Krems director Hans-Peter Wipplinger and art historian Brigitte Borchhardt-Birbaumer in dialogue with Sarah Lucas and Gelatin.
Following the exhibition opening on 16th July, a summer fest will take place in front of Kunsthalle Krems and at Kloster Und, with music and sounds from Russell Haswell, Philipp Quehenberger & DD Kern, Sara Glaxia, tmpl XX, Fantastik Framtid and the Trachtenkapelle Wösendorf, a traditional music band.
In parallel to the preparatory work for the exhibition, a catalogue is being published by Walther König, Cologne, which will contain up-to-date installation photos and therefore will only come out about
two weeks after the exhibition opening (160 pages, with contributions from Brigitte Borchhardt-Birbaumer, Hans-Peter Wipplinger and Werner Hofmann, the doyen of German-speaking art history.
The Kunsthalle Krems is offering a special subscription: for € 38.90 you get two exhibition tickets plus catalogue which will be sent to you by mail. For subscriptions please mail to: office@kunsthalle.at
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Image: Gelatin, Ohne Titel, 2007, Courtesy: Galerie Meyer Kainer, Wien © Gelatin, 2011
Opening 16th July, at 6pm
Kunsthalle Krems
Franz Zeller Platz 3 - Krems-Stein
Opening Hours: daily: 10 a.m. to 06. p.m.
Adults: € 9,00 per person
Reduced: € 8,00 per person
Group prices: € 7,00 per person (for a group of at least 10 persons)
Famylicard: € 18,00 (for 2 adults and max. 4 children)
Children under the age of 6 years get free entry