Eva&Adele
dal 15/3/2008 al 7/6/2008
Segnalato da
15/3/2008
Eva&Adele
Museum der Moderne - Rupertinum, Salzburg
Pink. Early Photography & Video Art. The artistic duo perceive themselves as a living work of art and thus every place where they appear automatically becomes a museum. As an artistic pair constantly working together, they are more than just the striking, occasionally jarring commentary on the most popular artistic events. Also on show a suite of over 1,500 polaroid photos, taken on each day of their trip as well as on every single day from then to now.
Curator: Margit Zuckriegl
EVA & ADELE became internationally known with their performances at exhibitions, openings
of new works and art events. The artistic duo perceive themselves as a living work of art and
thus every place where they appear automatically becomes a “museum”. “Wherever we are
is Museum” is one of the titles of their concept. As an artistic pair constantly working
together, they are more than just the striking, occasionally jarring commentary on the most
popular artistic events.
The presentation of EVA & ADELE was conceived as a double exhibition. The MdM
Rupertinum shows the start of the path which the artistic pair have taken together. The
Lentos Museum of Modern Art in Linz provides an insight into their joint artistic creation,
based on new pictures and drawings.
Thus it is as though Salzburg is right at the beginning, “reconstructing” the pair’s first great
journey, which was a process of becoming, a slow genesis, providing the first signs in
formulating what still remained an unclear artistic development. The journey to “Hellas” is a
new adaptation of the film material from 1989, which is now set up for the first time at
the Rupertinum as a simultaneous seven-part video installation. Previously unshown
material was adapted and enhanced with later sequences, so that a document has
emerged which is as conceptual as it is sensual, relating an unusual “artistic journey”.
In previous eras the ambition of artists on journeys was primarily to experience the
new, to gather in exotic impressions or have encounters with unfamiliar people;
however this journey served the two artists’ process of joint self-affirmation and of
gaining clarity on the emotional, private and consciously artistic opportunities.
The
“journey to Hellas” – a journey to the “cradle of humankind” – as EVA & ADELE put it,
with a wink in their eyes – is basically a journey which is uncompleted even now.
In addition to this story-telling, film-based area, the Rupertinum presents a suite of over
1,500 polaroid photos, taken on each day of their trip as well as on every single day from
then to now.
The exhibition includes these “auto-polaroids” as well as polaroids and other photos, which
the artistic pair show at their performances, in gatherings with visitors and encounters
with passers-by, as well as the “Self-Timer” series, in which a poetic picture narrative is
formulated in photographs. The results of this complex idea behind their work include
accessories and mementos, the so-called “Biographical Sculptures”; amongst these are
the pink Volkswagen bus which – serving as a painted abode and means of transport,
an artist’s studio and an object of art – represents the starting-point of the Rupertinum
presentation.
To accompany the exhibitions in Salzburg and Linz, DuMont Verlag publishing house
has issued a comprehensive book with text contributions from Sabine Kampmann and
Margit Zuckriegl, amongst others - 144 pages, sales price Euro 49.90.
Media Tour: We. 12.03.08, 11.00 a.m.
Opening : Su. 16.03.08, 11.00 a.m.
Museum der Moderne - Rupertinum
Wiener Philharmoniker Gasse, 9 - Salzburg