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- Vienna
Coffee Table
- Group Exhibition curated by Herbert Hinteregger
- Opening June 26, 2004, 7 pm
- Duration till August 28, 2004
- Among others with works by:
- - Clegg & Guttmann
- - De Portela, Ana
- - Feiersinger, Werner
- - Gostner, Martin
- - Graf, Franz
- - Hinteregger, Herbert
- - Hinterhuber, Christoph
- - Hohenbüchler, Christine & Irene
- - Jarmusch, Jim
- - Jasmin, Nicolas (N.I.C.J.O.B.)
- - Kogler, Peter
- - Krystufek, Elke
- - Locher, Thomas
- - Lombardi, Inés
- - Lulic, Marko
- - Reiterer, Werner
- - Rockenschaub, Gerwald
- - Ryan, Julie
- - Schaberl, Robert
- - Schinwald, Markus
- - Stocker, Esther
- - Trinkaus, Gabi
- - Viscio, Alexander
- - Wurm, Erwin
- - Zobernig, Heimo
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- Vienna
Coffee Table – Views on a cutout of Vienna
(concept)
- Group exhibition at the gallery Bernhard Knaus / Mannheim (June – August 04; Opening: Saturday, 26th of June 7.00 pm). The exhibition gives a glimpse
- on the current art production in Vienna and/or about Vienna from a peculiar perspective.
- The place, from where we report, about which we talk: Vienna at the Danube. What am I confronted with in the moments while I am approaching, when I
- have arrived and in a further consequence? To the outside Vienna is full of stereotypes like “Viennese Schnitzel”, “Fiaker (horse cabs), “The Viennese Waltz
- – at the beautiful, blue Danube”, “Mannerschnitten” (special Austrian cookies) and coffee houses. (One that fully reflects these clichés and has to be
- mentioned as an especially bad example: the renovation of Café Museum. The place, originally designed by Adolf Loos, has been transformed into a
- touristy space, with rarely anything left of the former outstanding and rare architecture.)
- The question arises, if these stereotypes can possibly contain something more; offer a deeper quality like e.g. aspiration or surprise? The cliché of the
- Viennese coffee house stands for a widely used picture, which I would like to discuss in more detail. It is used as a metaphor for the general atmosphere
- and vibration in Vienna, a symbol for an environment that is full of slowness and emptiness. Is the coffee house – the legend tells that the coffee has been
- imported by the Turks during the siege in 1863 for the first time – a world full of distraction and reassurance? Is the coffee house a place from yesterday?
- Opposite to these stereotypes, there is the current position “Vienna coffee table sound” of the musicians Kruder & Dorfmeister, who describe an elegant
- internal view, a cultivated intellectual boredom. In this context appear monochrome and geometrical paintings, mostly without visible emotion. These are
- geometrical shapes; arisen out of ornaments, e.g. out of architecture or out of POP and MTV even. On one end of the scale they occur either as trash or
- as out of everyday life, on the other end of the scale there are extreme pure and clean artworks, but as well offering a subtle, cool elegance, an extra portion
- coolness. Painting and often not painting, object-oriented, with the characteristics of painting, sleaziness, personal or machine-oriented, highly perfect.
- On another stage of the internal view (“Vienna, the city of Sigmund Freud”) emerge figurative positions, reflecting the human body and portraits. Painted
- portraits from the 19th century, which have been artificially changed, acting neurotic, but always with a slight cynical, but humoristic intention. Painted
- pictures and self-portraits, in confrontation with photography considered as showing “striptease of the soul”, as radical examination of existential orientation.
- The export of your own feelings into the outside world – the world as living room, in which you are not completely on your own – the interface between
- inside and outside – a coffee house.
- “The truth is that I have always hated the Viennese coffeehouse because in them I am always confronted with people like myself, and naturally I do not
- wish to be everlastingly confronted with people like myself, and certainly not in a coffeehouse where I go to escape from myself.”
- (Thomas Bernhard, Wittgensteins Nephew)
- Herbert Hinteregger
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- Copyright: Galerie Bernhard Knaus und the refferring artist.
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