Footnotes to Business, Footnotes to Pleasure
dal 14/1/2009 al 6/3/2009
Segnalato da
14/1/2009
Footnotes to Business, Footnotes to Pleasure
Christine Konig Galerie, Wien
Anetta Mona Chisa and Lucia Tkacova explore gender relations as well as their role of Eastern European artists in a Western-dominated art world. With videos, installations, textual works, and performances they refract consumer expectations and trigger processes of reflection about gender questions, the art market, and making art.
The Trivial Few, 2007/08 In 1906 Vilfred Pareto, an Italian sociologist and economist, noticed that 80% of Italy's wealth was owned by 20% of the population and the rest 80% of inhabitants shared the remaining 20% of resources. The Pareto principle (also known as the 80:20 rule) became an economical equation that reflects the uneven distribution of the global wealth. In 1937, Joseph M. Juran conceptualized the 80:20 principle and extended it to the rule of "the vital" few and the "trivial many", claiming that 80% of the effects comes from 20% of the causes. Its universal application makes it one of the most useful concepts and tools of modern-day management.
ANETTA MONA CHIŞA & LUCIA TKÁČOVÁlive and work in Prague and Bratislava.
Anetta Mona Chişa (Prague) and Lucia Tkáčová (Bratislava) have been working together since 2000. They explore gender relations as well as their role of Eastern European artists in a Western-dominated art world. With videos, installations, textual works, and performances they refract consumer expectations and trigger processes of reflection about gender questions, the art market, and making art.
Chişa’s and Tkáčová’s work has not been the expression of a search for identity, as it can often be seen in the work of artists of the older generation of Eastern Europeans; instead they focus on the post-communist world with all its changes. The gaze of the artists is directed at the concrete experiential world of individuals being subjected to the transformation process from communism to capitalism.
The show is conceived as a compilation of new pieces dealing with obsessive work (labour), the female condition and the mechanisms of translation.
Accompanying to the exhibiton at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein the catalogue „Anetta Mona Chişa/Lucia Tkáčová“ (German/English, 208 p. with several images, 19.80 €) has been published at Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln.
Opening: 15. Januar 2009, 7 -9 p.m.
Christine Konig Galerie
Schleifmuhlgasse 1A - Vienna
Free admission