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Sabine Bitter / Helmut Weber
dal 8/7/2009 al 12/9/2009

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Sigrid Lehner


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Sabine Bitter
Helmut Weber



 
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8/7/2009

Sabine Bitter / Helmut Weber

Landesgalerie, Linz

Right to the city. Since the late 1980s, their joint work has combined a perfectly natural approach to the widest range of media and pictorial technologies with an absolutely contemporary form of conceptual art. In their analytic and research-oriented practice, they follow the process of change and the effects of modernization and globalization on the city, architecture, and the creation of urban space in a great variety of geographical and socio-political arenas.


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SABINE BITTER / HELMUT WEBER RIGHT, TO THE CITY with a commentary by Jochen Becker The Landesgalerie Linz is presenting the most extensive collection of works by Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber to be shown so far in Austria.
Since the late 1980s, their joint work has combined a perfectly natural approach to the widest range of media and pictorial technologies with an absolutely contemporary form of conceptual art. In their analytic and research-oriented practice, they follow the process of change and the effects of modernization and globalization on the city, architecture, and the creation of urban space in a great variety of geographical and socio-political arenas.
The artists' pictorial production, which repeatedly makes investigations into the interweaving of art, politics and society, is overlaid with analyses of various media and styles in the fields of architecture, film and urbanism. In their projects, Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber provide fundamental contributions to a re-evaluation and visualization of subjects that represent the developments, promises and crises of political and social utopias.

At the same time, their artistic work deals with – and reflects on – the power and possibilities of interpretation in connection with the creation of social spaces through pictures.

Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber invited the Berlin critic and curator Jochen Becker to make a personal contribution to their current exhibition. This will be displayed in the fifth hall of the Landesgalerie as a spatial commentary on 'The Modern – The Provider (Versorger Moderne): Red Vienna, New Frankfurt, Hitler Buildings in Linz'. In addition to the artist"s book: 'Sabine Bitter / Helmut Weber: Autogestion or Henri Lefebvre in New Belgrade'; with an unpublished text of Henri Lefebvre, a foreword by Neil Smith and texts by Ljiljana Blagojevic, Klaus Ronneberger und Zoran Eric. Verlag Fillip, Vancouver und Sternberg Press, Berlin, 2009.

Furthermore, a comprehensive catalogue with views of the presentation and a documentation of the projects shown will be issued at the end of the exhibition. With a documentary of projects by the artists from 1995 until 2009 for expample about Novi Beograd, Caracas, Chicago and Vancouver. With texts by Martin Hochleitner, Clint Burnham, Candice Hopkins, Jeff Derksen and others.

Sabine Bitter, Aigen in 1960, lives and works in Vienna and Vancouver.
Helmut Weber, Dorf an der Pram in 1957, lives and works in Vienna.
They have worked together on projects dealing with the city, architecture and the politics of space and representation since 1993 and have been awarded numerous international grants as well as teaching and research contracts.

Image: Sabine Bitter/Helmut Weber: aus der Serie "Autogestion, or Henri Lefebvre in New Belgrade", Offsetdruck bzw. Fotografie, 100 x 76 cm, 2009

Press contact
Sigrid Lehner, Tel: +43-732-774482-53 s.lehner@landesmuseum.at

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Sabine Bitter / Helmut Weber
dal 8/7/2009 al 12/9/2009

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