ART CITIES:Vienna-Construktion_Reflection, Part I

The Bogner Collection comprises works by artists of different generations and also purposefully includes work by artists from Eastern Europe, allowing comparison and contrast, and thus contributing to a broader and more authentic presentation of international trends in recent art history. Also archive and bibliographic materials that contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of the artworks (Part II)

By Dimitris Lempesis
Photo: mumok Archive

The exhibition “Construction_Reflection” presents a selection of works centered on 3 sections. The works were donated from the Collectors Gertraud and Dieter Bogner to mumok in 2007. With more than 100 paintings, sculptures, and objects, and 300 drawings, gouaches, prints, autographs, artists’ books, and archive materials, this is the largest single donation to the museum to date. In the section “Theoretical Relations between Painting and Color” is on presentation a selection of highly colorful paintings and sculptures also reveals references to theory. Whether in Heimo Zobernig’s monochrome paintings, or in abstract geometrical paintings like works by Richard Paul Lohse, Jorrit Tornquist, and Josef Albers, picture and color always refer to their surroundings and to their perception. The section “Film Works and Media Art from the Bogner Collection” reflects on history and society in film and photography in combination with language and sign-based forms of art is seen in works by: Peter Weibel, Dorit Margreiter, Frantisek Lésak, and others. Social influences and power structures are given expression here, as is the influence of media realities on personal and collective images of identity. A further group of works in “Symbolic References to Architecture and Media Crossover” draws on the tradition of Constructivist Modernism and exemplifies the critical-analytic and utopian potential of works that link Architecture, Sculpture, and Abstraction in an interdisciplinary manner. Kolíbal’s sculptures, Maljkovic’s film Installation about the Architect Vjenceslav Richter, and Hilliard’s photographic reflection of the four sides of a tower on one surface

Info: Curators: Gertraud & Dieter Bogner with Rainer Fuchs, mumok (Museum moderner Kunst  Stiftung Ludwig Wien), Museumsplatz 1, Vienna, Duration: 25/11/16-17/4/17, Days & Hours: Mon 14:00-19:00, Tue-Wed & Fri-Sun 10:00-19:00, Thu 10:00-21:00, www.mumok.at