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Galerija Skuc : HIDDEN PUBLICS - 3 Mar 2011 to 27 Mar 2011 Current Exhibition |
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Walter Derungs, From the series: SX-70 nights , 2000
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HIDDEN PUBLICS Laurence Bonvin, Walter Derungs, Markus Dorfm�ller, Esther Hiepler/Max Philipp Schmid, Emil Gruber, Martin Krenn, Andreja Kuluncic, Tanja Lazetic, Jerome Leuba, Ivan Moudov, Warren Neidich, Michaela Thelenova, Tobias Zielony March 3 - 27, 2011 You are most kindly invited to the opening of the exhibition, which will take place on Thursday, 3rd March, at Galerija �kuc. The exhibition Hidden Publics investigates the different moments of perceiving public space and its inherent structures, which coin the urban cityscape, but are not necessarily visible as such. The artists in the exhibition question the structures according to which the public is constituted, implying different political and social patterns based on aesthetic assumptions as arbitrary moments. How can visible aspects of a city and its surrounding space refer to a hidden background? How can different, social, political or tourist-oriented purposes appear on the surface of a traditionally conservative yet identity-generating cityscape? Hidden Publics analyzes a specific kind of otherness - or in a Lacanian sense, the reverse side of the mirror - which is required for an understanding of the whole identity of the self, with its inner tensions and conflicts. How can moments of urban life be visualized as a whole, i.e. how can their inner and outer structures be revealed as the results of incoherent strategies of organization? The artists in the exhibition hint at the dichotomy between the visible and its actual meaning for the public. How thoroughly have outer structures been observed to fathom the contents of the reality behind them? The artistic works present counter views that point to disharmonic moments, which can be revealed only on closer examination and which hint at the social and political barriers behind architectural facades. The photographic apparatus or the camera serves as a tool for observation. The media of photography and video, with their direct relation to reality, become decisive factors in determining the content of visible everyday scenarios. This is part of the exhibition tour initiated by Kunsthalle Palazzo. Following the model of The_ artist in the (art) society 2009, the team of curators are developing the tour from the beginning and contextualizing it in the individual regional stages. A publication is scheduled for the end of the tour. You are most kindly invited to the preview of the exhibition with the curator Walter Seidl, which will take place on Thursday, March 3rd at 19.00, and the guided tours on Wednesdays March 9th and 23rd at 18.00. Curators: Walter Seidl, Andrea Domesle Cooperating partners: Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal bei Basel < rotor > association for contemporary art, Graz Faculty of Art and Design at Jan Evangelista Purkyne University in �st� nad Labem and Emil Filla Gallery, �st� nad Labem Supported by: swiss arts council |
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