Twilight Zone - Art Hits Design
09 05 2009 - 27 06 2009
>Eva Beierheimer , >Gilbert Bretterbauer , >Matali Crasset , >Hermann Czech , > EOOS , >Werner Feiersinger , >Heinz Frank , >Konstantin Grcic , >Donald Judd , >Luisa Kasalicky , > Krüger & Pardeller , >Hans Kupelwieser , >Miriam Laussegger , >Lazar Lyutakov , >Manuela Mark , >Bjarne Melgaard , >Philipp Messner , >David Moises , >Claudia Märzendorfer , >Flora Neuwirth , >Oswald Oberhuber , >Dennis Oppenheim , > POLKA , > PRINZGAU / Podgorschek , >Walter Pichler , >Rüdiger Reisenberger , >Joe Scanlan , >Zbyněk Sekal , >Barbara Visser , >Lawrence Weiner , >Heimo Zobernig , > ____fabrics interseason ,
The tension between autonomous sculpture and the providing of a service, the interplay between functionality and autonomy has, since Minimal Art, been subject to constant transformation. Artists search for connections or relatedness to visual culture, to design. As a mirror-image of Duchamp's Readymades, art is increasingly being declared a basic commodity.
TWILIGHT ZONE dedicates itself to artistic positions and strategies that highlight questions concerning usability, attribution, and functionality.
The opening, as an accompanying program to the VIENNAFAIR, includes a broad audience in on the discourse and demonstrates usability and an everyday approach to the shown works: In the context of the exhibition the works can be read as art, in the course of the evening program as applied objects, thereby directly placing the question of their purpose and function as the central theme.
INFO:
Presentation of the exhibition catalog with Georg Schöllhammer in conversation with the curators Edek Bartz and Krüger & Pardeller on 18 June at 19.00 clock.