Exhibition
The exhibition took place from 20 October 2012 to 3 March 2013.
open spaces | secret places. Works from the VERBUND COLLECTION, Vienna
The exhibition open spaces | secret places. works from the VERBUND COLLECTION, Vienna, was on display at the Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, from 20 October 2012 to 3 March 2013.
In the exhibition open spaces | secret places, we are confronted with works that let us perceive space in an unusual and secretive way, and that let us sense places through stories, a mix of fact and fiction.
Curator:
Curated by Gabriele Schor, founding director of the VERBUND COLLECTION, Vienna, and Veit Zeigelmaier, curator MdM Salzburg
Team of the VERBUND COLLECTION, Vienna
Theresa Dann – curatorial assistant
Ema Rajković – curatorial assistant
Artists
open spaces
Francis Alÿs | Eleanor Antin | Bernd und Hilla Becher | Ulla von Brandenburg | Tom Burr | Janet Cardiff / George Bures Miller | Ceal Floyer | Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler | Joachim Koester | Louise Lawler | Gordon Matta-Clark | Anthony McCall | Ernesto Neto | Gabriel Orozco | Wilfredo Prieto | Fred Sandback | Jeff Wall | David Wojnarowicz
Museum der Moderne Salzburg
Mönchsberg 32, 5020 Salzburg
Insights into the exhibition open spaces | secret places. Works from the VERBUND COLLECTION, Vienna
Publication:
open spaces | secret places. Works from the VERBUND COLLECTION
published by Gabriele Schor
Hardcover: 188 pages
Publisher: Buchhandlung Walther König
Edition: 2012
Language: German
ISBN 978-3-8633-5266-0
Present | Absent
The first part of the exhibition is determined by the medium of photography. Jeff Wall secretively stages fragments of urbanity on the periphery. Joachim Koester, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Tom Burr, Teresa Hubbard/Alexander Birchler and David Wojnarowicz examine the fragility of the present given the historical change in space and time. Louise Lawler guides our gaze to places in which artworks are kept and presented. Janet Cardiff/Georges Bures Miller stage a journey through memories as an audio-visual experience space.
The second part of the exhibition is dedicated to a personal experience of space. Ernesto Neto creates a cage draped with nylon, which can be walked around and seen as an allegory for our psychological system. Gordon Matta-Clark deconstructs rooms and houses, cuts them open and radically redefines them for the viewer. Fred Sandback breaks with the conventional idea of sculpture and creates a volumes without mass in the space using tensioned threads. Anthony McCall bathes our body in a cone of light that becomes visible in the mist. Both artists succeed in creating space without building it.
Photos: © Sandra Stojkovic / Wild & Team
Interesting links
Press release
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