Isa Genzken / Emilio Prini
2000 Frankfurter Kunstverein EXHIBITION
May 27 to Aug 6, 2000
Isa Genzken
Urlaub (Holiday) presented new works by Isa Genzken (*1948) that address spatial and temporal structures as basic coordinates of sculptural design in various media - sculpture, photography, film. The title of the exhibition locates these works in a system of possible associations without pinning them down. Rather, the phenomenon of holiday appears as a suggestive-productive form and free space of perception and design.
Alongside models for "beach houses to move into", which explore the sculptural and architectural dimension of this type of building, there were, among other things, awnings installed in the interior, an extensive photo series about a journey on a sailing yacht and a film that Genzken made about a visit to her grandparents. As heterogeneous as these works seem at first glance, in the context of their installations they form an inner coherence that locates the period of holiday between travel and recreation, functionally designed leisure and temporary stay in a "different space".
With the kind support of DG-BANK Kulturförderung.
Emilio Prini
Standard – Catasta ultralogica
Emilio Prini (*1943) is one of the founders of Italian "Arte Povera", whose conceptual ideas he has consistently pursued. His works address both the optical and the physical perception of the world with minimal means. These often sculptural objects, which result from the aesthetic observation of the seemingly everyday, present themselves as traces of perception and experience from the world.
For Prini, the presentation of his works is all about authenticity and topicality.
His works are constantly being created anew, reconstructed and recontextualised. Each exhibition remains unique as a result. At the Frankfurter Kunstverein, Prini places objects from the late 1960s next to works that he conceived specifically for the spatial situation on site. In this way, the context within which art is created does not become a historicising framework, but a reference that situates itself in the now. Prini's "standards" know a solution in which all possibilities are contained. They know combinations, but no variation. The result is unique: not mathematical but logical - ultralogical.
Isa Genzken
Urlaub
In publication accompanying the exhibition Vanessa Joan Müller examines how Genzken’s recent work establishes a critical discourse about architecture and design as exposed sites of aesthetic and cultural formation.
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