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Galerie Martin Janda: U.F.O.�NAUT JK (J�lius Koller) orchestrated by Rirkrit Tiravanija - 10 Apr 2013 to 25 May 2013 Current Exhibition |
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Photo: J�lius Koller, UFO-Naut J.K. (U.F.O.), 1980, Detail
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U.F.O.–NAUT JK (Július Koller) orchestrated by Rirkrit Tiravanija 10.04.–25.05.2013 Opening: Tuesday, 9 April 2013, 7 p.m. Based on Július Koller’s conceptual work, Rirkrit Tiravanija (*1961) developed new works that reflect the subversion, irony and symbolic language of the Slovakian artist who died in 2007. The use of common objects and the interventions into day-to-day situations through minimal gestures were characteristic of Koller’s works. Tiravanija enhances the performative, participatory and interactive aspects used by Koller. Rirkrit Tiravanija refers to significant works and recurrent topics in the works of Július Koller. Four table tennis tables distributed in the exhibition spaces with text printed on them can be used by visitors: They refer to the Ping-Pong Society founded by Július Koller for the course of a month in 1970 in Bratislava. Instead of an exhibition, visitors were invited to play table tennis. The question mark, a frequently used symbol by Koller, often used as a subversive statement against the political system experienced by him, also appears in Univerzálny Futurologicky Otáznik (U.F.O.) / Universal Futurological Question Mark (U.F.O.), which Koller formed sitting on a meadow together with children in 1978. Tiravanija restaged this question mark at Vienna’s St. Stephen’s Square with more than 100 participants. The works of Tiravanija are contrasted with selected works of Július Koller. Thai artist Rirkrit Tiravanija was born in Buenos Aires (AR) in 1961. He lives and works in New York (USA) and Chiang Mai (TH). Július Koller (1939–2007) was born in Piestany (SK), he lived and worked in Bratislava (SK). |
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