Robert Adrian X
dal 6/12/2001 al 10/2/2001
Segnalato da
6/12/2001
Robert Adrian X
Kunsthalle Wien, Wien
First comprehensive retrospective in Europe. Robert Adrian X?s diverse work ranges from analytical painting in the 1970s, conceptual photography, small sculptures and model construction to light and sound installations and telecommunications projects in the public and media spheres.
"Collaging is a non-linear process. We build something new every day without
gaining anything new. It?s a new way of thinking that we have learned." Robert
Adrian X made this way of thinking his manner of practicing art. The artist, born
1935 in Toronto, Canada, who has been living in Vienna since 1972, reassembles
the most diverse cultural symbols in his work, articulating meanings between the
lines which he thus makes stand for themselves.
"It?s all about this fuzzy territory between different media, it?s about the vanishing of
demarcating definitions." Quotes from classical modernity, advertising, and media
technology or arms-industry artifacts are placed in new, often flowing-spatial
contexts, with playful, ambiguous, and sometimes also menacing effects.
The Kunsthalle Wien will be showing the artist?s first comprehensive retrospective
in Europe.
Robert Adrian X?s diverse work ranges from analytical painting in the 1970s,
conceptual photography, small sculptures and model construction to light and
sound installations and telecommunications projects in the public and media
spheres.
Curator: Lucas Gehrmann
Image: Robert Adrian X, 76 Airplanes, Detailansicht der Installation, 1984/85, Foto: John Abbott, © Robert Adrian X
KUNSTHALLE Wien, New Building
Museumsplatz 1, A- 1070 Vienna
Open daily from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m
7 December, 2001 - 10 February 2002, Hall 2
Admission:
ATS 70,- (Euro 5) / reduced ATS 50,- (Euro 3,5) combined tickets: ATS 110,- (Euro 8) / reduced: ATS 90,- (Euro 6,5) admission for students every Monday: ATS 50,- / (Euro 3,5) family reduction