Opening, 17th March 2017 at 6 pm
Curated by Dieter BUCHHART
Constructing Paradise exhibits contemporary reinterpretations of notions of the "exotic" by artists based in Austria or the United States. Taking iconic artworks such as Paul Gauguin's Noa Noa and Oskar Kokoschka's Tiger Cat as starting points, the show assembles a diverse range of work from early contemporary to more recent artistic responses to the modernist imprint of desire and fantasy on contemporary culture. Particularly when juxtaposed with hyperbolized images of modern-day advertising, the exhibition explores the psychological impacts of the modernist image on image culture and the Western psyche.
A project by the Wiener Art Foundation
Opening: 26 January at 6 pm
Opening: 25 January at 7 pm
Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg
Gerokstr. 37
D-70184 Stuttgart
Auteurs: Valérie Aébi-Sarrazy, Keneth Baker, Fernando Castro Florez, Sandra Danicke, Curro Gonzalez, Menene Gras Balaguer, Jonathan Harris, Emmanuel Latreille, Chon A. Noriega, Guillermo Pérez-Villalta, Jennifer P. Borum, Kevin Power, Pedro G. Romero
Editeur: Menene Gras Balaguer
978-84-932950-8-0
Opening of the exhibition: 24.11.2016 at 19.00
Post-Mortem
This exhibition joins the celebration of the 500th anniversary of the publication of literary Utopia of Thomas More in 1516. Since then, the very word utopia has become a fundamental concept to name the construction of a philosophical thought that challenges the very meaning of history and builds an intangible ideal of perfection and complete harmony. However, while the moral genealogy of the utopia concept is based on an anthropocentric vision of the world, this project is grounded on the realization of the need to activate subjective forms of understanding reality. Utopia becomes, then, the energy that can take us to new ways of experiencing and establishing a relationship with today?s social and political landscape. The idea of an intangible utopia confronts us with a wide range of possible ways to explore the world and the uncertainty of this search brings us closer to sensory and poetic forms inscribed in the margins between fiction and reality.
This group of artworks and artists propose narratives open to different interpretations anchored on the strength of the actions and the power of the objects and their form. The exhibition aims to reflect on the possibility of finding an underground utopia in the common search of the natural, social and political, inviting an analysis of the tensions between the ideal and the everyday.
Aline Biasutto, Mónica de Miranda, Hanne Lippard, Leonor Costa, Hugo Canoilas, Grace Schwindt, André Alves, Andrés Pachón, Diogo Tudela, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, Susana Gaudêncio, Paulo Osório, Natalia Calderón, Tadeu Almeida Furtado.
Curated by Juan Luis Toboso in collaboration with the Master in Art Studies, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto.
C & O
Antwerp Tower, De Keyserlei 5, B-2018 Antwerp
open Thursday-Sunday 13.00-18.00
Opening: Friday 8 July 2016 at 6.30 pm
The Dark Side of the Moon
Das Abgründige in der Kunst von Albrecht Dürer bis Martin Disler
9. Juli - 23. Oktober 2016, Kunstmuseum
‹See you on the dark side of the moon …›, lautet eine Textzeile aus dem legendären Konzeptalbum der britischen Rockband Pink Floyd, welches seit seinem Erscheinen 1973 zu den meistverkauften Tonträgern zählt. Thematisch kreist das Werk um die Abgründe des Menschseins, um die anonymen Machtstrukturen, welchen das Individuum in der heutigen Gesellschaft ausgesetzt ist. Die dunkle Seite des Mondes verweist über die sozialen Verhältnisse hinaus im Sinne von Mark Twains Zitat ‹Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody › auf existentielle Schattenseiten. Beides bildet den Angelpunkt für die thematische Ausstellung, in deren Zentrum eine einzigartige Werkgruppe von Skulpturen und raumgreifenden Arbeiten des legendären Schweizer Künstlers Martin Disler (1949 – 1996) steht.