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Relational aesthetics' focuses on visitors’ active involvement in artworks and on their social backgrounds, provided Jonathan Monk with the starting point for his conceptual deliberations. What does it mean when the boundaries between art and everyday life start to dissolve? And what role does politically incorrect behaviour play in this context? Sourced in India, bicycles assembled locally form the coordinates, together with a work appropriated Rirkrit Tiravanija, and a Rolls- Royce dating from the 1960s. During this exhibition one bicycle is removed from the installation daily and placed at a different point in Dornbirn, where anybody is free to take it away with them. In this way, the sculpture is taken apart piece by piece, dissolving in the infrastructure of Dornbirn. (Stefan Tasch).0Exhibition: Kunstraum Dornbirn, Austria (21.06.-18.08.2013).
In 2013, Vienna-based artist Martin Walde (born 1957) transformed the Kunstraum Dornbirn into a hallucinatory artificial paradise. Walde's penned-in weather balloons become bizarre beings and everyday utensils are transformed into tropical flowers.
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Brooklyn-based artist Nin Brudermann (born 1970) explores absurdist aspects of scientific procedures. Twelve o' Clock in London documents her installation of more than 150 videos from around the world, all recording the synchronized release of weather balloons.
Two pieces by Tony Matelli face off in a mute dialogue: his darkly hilarious sculpture of a phlegmatic one-legged monkey on a crutch impaled by every possible piercing tool (sword, arrow, spear, scissors, dart, and even shovel), and a fake tree on a hooked rug. Drawings and studio shots take you further into Matelli's practice.
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