Lens-Based Sculpture
dal 15/5/2014 al 30/8/2014
Segnalato da
15/5/2014
Lens-Based Sculpture
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz
The Transformation of Sculpture through Photography. The 200 works by more than seventy international artists show how modern sculpture detached itself from the millennia-old principle of statuary sculpture and evolved into a new artistic praxis in which the whole of reality with its diverse tactile, spatial, and media-related phenomena is sculptural material.
The exhibition Lens-Based Sculpture shows the relation between sculpture and photography for
the first time from the perspective of the history of sculpture. The two hundred works by more
than seventy international artists show how modern sculpture detached itself from the millennia-
old principle of statuary sculpture and evolved into a new artistic praxis in which the whole of
reality with its diverse tactile, spatial, and media-related phenomena is sculptural material.
The camera serves as sculpture’s primary tool, as a sketchbook and facilitator for spatial and
structural representation in mass and form.
Along with works by Umberto Boccioni, Marcel Duchamp, and Raymond Duchamp-Villon that
mark the point of departure for Lens-Based Sculpture, works created since the 1960s form the
core of the exhibition. The exhibits range from hyperrealistic to immaterial sculpture, from
sculptural spatial installations to fictitious sculpture, from performative sculpture to preserving
traces, and to photomedia investigations in the form of sculptural apparatus. Works by Tony
Cragg, VALIE EXPORT, Gilbert & George, Duane Hanson, Rebecca Horn, Joan Jonas, Edmund
Kuppel, Ron Mueck, Bruce Nauman, Giuseppe Penone, Roman Signer, Kiki Smith, and other
artists show the degree to which photography and film have expanded sculptural work in the
direction of new experimental and social contexts.
In Lens-Based Sculpture, curated by Bogomir Ecker, Raimund Kummer, Friedemann Malsch, and
Herbert Molderings, artists and art scholars jointly develop unaccustomed forms of presentation.
Thus, Marcel Duchamp’s Porte Gradiva (1937) is shown in its original form – as a traversable
doorway. The sculptors Bogomir Ecker and Raimund Kummer also integrate two conceptual
spaces: like an archive, densely stocked with multimedia exhibits, they open up additional
insights into the complex artistic research on the phenomena of Lens-Based Sculpture.
A German-English catalogue will be published with texts by Michel Frizot, Ursula Frohne,
Friedemann Malsch, Herbert Molderings, Dietmar Rübel, and Annette Tietenberg, with a pictorial
essay by Bogomir Ecker and Raimund Kummer.
The exhibition is a coproduction of Akademie der Künste, Berlin, and Kunstmuseum
Liechtenstein.
Side programme
Art 60 plus
Art 60 plus is a service for people aged sixty and over who are interested and have time to get to
know the current exhibitions and collection presentations at the Kunstmuseum: to discuss
together, ask questions, look for answers, exchange views and experience, learn interesting facts,
get to know unfamiliar things, and venture into new spheres.
Tuesday, 3 June 2014, 2–4pm
Tuesday, 15 August 2014, 2–4pm
with Barbara Redmann
No registration required.
Cost: museum admission (CHF 8.– or one-year ticket CHF 40.–)
Thursday, 12 June 2014, 6pm
Lecture
«Home for my bird» – Aus dem Alltag einer Kunstgiesserei
by Annina Zimmermann
In co-operation with Liechtensteinische Kunstgesellschaft.
Thursday, 12 June 2014, 8pm
Film club at the Kunstmuseum
Orphée
by Jean Cocteau, FR 1950, 95'
Thursday, 26 June 2014, 6pm
Lecture
Lens-Based Sculpture – Transformationen des Skulpturbegriffs seit Erfahrung
der Fotografie
by Ursula Frohne
In co-operation with Liechtensteinische Kunstgesellschaft.
Thursday, 3 July 2014, 6pm
Lecture
Die Maschine Mensch
Das biomechanische Körperbild der Chronofotografie und die Revolutionierung des
Skulpturbegriffs durch Umberto Boccioni, Raymond Duchamp-Villon und Marcel Duchamp
by Herbert Molderings
In co-operation with Liechtensteinische Kunstgesellschaft.
Sunday, 6 July, 3 August and 7 September 2014, 10am–5pm
Kunstmuseum Special/Family
Travel Destination: Museum!
10.15am and 3pm
Short guided tours for families (c. 30 minutes)
10am–5pm
Studio for family portraits
Friday, 15 August 2014, 10am–8pm
National Holiday
free admission
2pm–6.30pm
Short guided tours (every 30 minutes)
2pm–6pm
Special activities for kids in the foyer
Thursday, 21 August 2014, 8pm
Film club at the Kunstmuseum
With Gilbert & George
by Julian Cole, GB 2007, 104'
Sunday, 31 August 2014, 3pm
Finissage
Guided tour
with Bogomir Ecker and Friedemann Malsch
One hour
The first Sunday of the month is dedicated to fundamental questions of art history. Based on
selected artworks we will be taking a look at aspects of art history, examining developments,
focusing on topics, and exploring what art can give us for our personal world of experience.
Each Sunday will deal with one selected topic. Events can be attended separately.
Sunday, 1 June 2014, 11am
Lens-Based Sculpture: Von der Wissenschaft zur Kunst. Bewegungsfotografie und
futuristische Skulptur
with Friedemann Malsch
Guided tours
Thursday, 22 May 2014, 6pm
Thursday, 21 August 2014, 6pm
Thursday, 26 August 2014, 6pm
Take Away
Short guided tours during the lunch break
Thursday, 26 June 2014, 12.30pm
Thursday, 28 August 2014, 12.30pm
Image: Duane Hanson, Man with Camera, 1991, Sammlung ARTSQUARE, Art © The Estate of Duane Hanson, courtesy Galerie Perrotin and Van de Weghe Fine Art, New York, Foto: Guillaume Ziccarelli, © 2014, ProLitteris, Zürich
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Thursday: 10am-8pm
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