Example: Switzerland
dal 28/9/2011 al 14/1/2012
Segnalato da
John M Armleder
Silvia Bachli
Bruno Bertozzi
Max Bill
Miriam Cahn
Valentin Carron
Andreas Christen
Latifa Echakhch
Hans Emmenegger
Helmut Federle
Fischli/Weiss
Sylvie Fleury
Clara Friedrich
Alberto Giacometti
Camille Graeser
Thomas Hirschhorn
Karin Hueber
Bruno Jakob
Emma Kunz
Verena Loewensberg
Richard Paul Lohse
Christian Marclay
Mario Merz
Karim Noureldin
Mai-Thu Perret
Vaclav Pozarek
René Pulfer
Pamela Rosenkranz
Dieter Roth
Adrian Schiess
Shirana Shahbazi
Roman Signer
Erik Steinbrecher
Sophie Taeuber-Arp
André Thomkins
Niele Toroni
Felice Varini
Ben Vautier
Hannah Villiger
Aldo Walker
Caspar Wolf
Roman Kurzmeyer
Friedemann Malsch
28/9/2011
Example: Switzerland
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz
Unbounding and Crossing Over as Art. The exhibition presents a selection of works by more than forty artists from Switzerland whose installations, paintings, drawings, photographs and objects all address aspects of spatial investigation. The main focus of the exhibition is on art since the 1970s, complemented and elucidated by earlier examples dating back as far as the eighteenth century. Among the artists: John M Armleder, Fischli/Weiss, Max Bill, Alberto Giacometti, Mario Merz, Ben Vautier...
curated by Roman Kurzmeyer and Friedemann Malsch
The latest exhibition at Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Example: Switzerland, presents a selection of works by more than forty artists from Switzerland whose installations, paintings, drawings, photographs and objects all address aspects of spatial investigation. The main focus of the exhibition is on art since the 1970s, complemented and elucidated by earlier examples dating back as far as the eighteenth century.
The works in the exhibition have been selected and arranged with a view to highlighting the important role that spatial concepts play in contemporary and emerging Swiss art. They re-veal the many diverse forms in which the conceptualisation and deconstruction of the artwork are expressed. What began with artists expanding the concept of art and exploring notions of time and space in the early years of the twentieth century is still an ongoing process today. Many contemporary works, especially installations, create spatial situations that are not in-tended to be viewed, in the way that paintings or sculptures are, but directly experienced instead.
Blurred boundaries and passages belong to contemporary art in a twofold sense, for these works do not merely initiate processes that involve experiences of space, but are often themselves the result of visual processes in which the concept of art has been tried and test-ed for its changeability. In so doing, the dissolution of boundaries affects the general concept of artwork as well as the specific aesthetic experience of an individual work and its formative properties.
The exhibition provides a geographically specific narrative within this wider international his-tory of art, addressing the ways in which artists perceive, reflect on and construct both time and space. It shows just how open Switzerland is, as indeed it has been for a very long time, to this dynamic and boundary-defying discourse in the world of art.
An exhibition catalogue by Roman Kurzmeyer and Friedemann Malsch will be published by Hatje Cantz Verlag in mid October 2011. It will include texts by Jacqueline Burckhardt, Hel-mut Federle, Christian Kerez, Thomas Hirschhorn, Mai-Thu Perret, Peter Suter and Adam Szymczyk. In addition, limited art editions by Latifa Echakhch, Bruno Jakob, Vaclav Pozarek, Pamela Rosenkranz and Erik Steinbrecher are available.
Artists included are:
John M Armleder (*1948)
Silvia Bächli (*1956)
Bruno Bertozzi (1945 –2000)
Max Bill (1908 –1994)
Miriam Cahn (*1949)
Valentin Carron (*1977)
Andreas Christen (1936 –2006)
Latifa Echakhch (*1974)
Hans Emmenegger (1866 –1940)
Helmut Federle (*1944)
Fischli/Weiss (David Weiss *1946, Peter Fischli *1952)
Sylvie Fleury (*1961)
Clara Friedrich (1894 –1969)
Alberto Giacometti (1901 –1966)
Camille Graeser (1892 –1980)
Thomas Hirschhorn (*1957)
Karin Hueber (*1977)
Bruno Jakob (*1954)
Emma Kunz (1892 –1963)
Verena Loewensberg (1912 –1986)
Richard Paul Lohse (1902 –1988)
Christian Marclay (*1955)
Mario Merz (1925 –2003)
Karim Noureldin (*1967)
Mai-Thu Perret (*1976)
Vaclav Pozarek (*1940)
René Pulfer (*1949)
Pamela Rosenkranz (*1979)
Dieter Roth (1930 –1998)
Adrian Schiess (*1959)
Shirana Shahbazi (*1974)
Roman Signer (*1938)
Erik Steinbrecher (*1963)
Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889 –1943)
André Thomkins (1930 –1985)
Niele Toroni (*1937)
Felice Varini (*1952)
Ben Vautier (*1935)
Hannah Villiger (1951 –1997)
Aldo Walker (1938 –2000)
Caspar Wolf (1735 –1783)
'Example Switzerland' is a production of Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, curated by Roman Kurzmeyer and Friedemann Malsch.
Press contact:
René Schierscher, Head of Marketing and Communications
schierscher@kunstmuseum.li
Image: Hannah Villiger, Arbeit 1980
Opening Thursday, 29 September 2011, 18 h
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein
Städtle 32, 9490 Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Opening hours: Tue-Sun 10-17, Thu 10-20 hrs
Special Events 15 August (National Day), 10am-8pm, free admission
Admission
Regular: CHF 12.-
Reduced: CHF 8.- (Senior citizens, students, apprentices, groups of 10 and
more [p.p.], Ö1-Club members)
Children, 16 and under: free