3/19/2023 0 Comments Vienna secession looos![]() ![]() ![]() The show was a sublime realization of the Gesamtkunstwerk in which the different arts – architecture, painting, sculpture and music – were united under a common theme. In 1902 the Viennese Secession organized an exhibition devoted to the genius Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) and centered around a life-size marble statue of the composer by the German sculptor Max Klinger (fig. Max Klinger as Beethoven displayed at the Secession, 1902 The Wiener Secession opposed to the conservative idea of Historicism and became an important group of artist around 1900. The Wiener Secession also known als the Union of Austrian Artists or Vereinigung Bildender KÜnstler Österreichs was founded in 1897 by a group of Austrian artist like Koloman Moser, Rudolph von Alt, Josef Hoffmann, Joseph Maria Olbrich, who resigned from the Association of Austrian artists and were located in the Wiener Künstlerhaus. This utopian attitude, for example, is reflected in the Beethoven Frieze created by the Viennese artist Gustav Klimt and leader of the 'Viennese Secession', an important association of dissident Austrian artists. In the late nineteenth century a great deal of intellectuals and artists felt a new era was dawning which would be more beautiful, in comparison with the imperfect world hitherto known. In her interventions in the Secession, Lucas has mixed literature fragments, musical phrases and architectural elements to map literal as well as symbolic escape routes, and in both senses the visitors to the exhibition are revealed to be the protagonists who complete her work.The hope on a better future simmered throughout fin-de-siècle Europe. Almost imperceptible, the new pages lurk in the books as parasites of sorts. A bookbinder was hired to remove pages from selected books and replace them with fragments of Casares’s text in the Spanish original. In a piece by Lucas also entitled Plan de evasión (Secession 2014), Casares’s story takes a quite unusual route and in doing so reaches unsuspecting readers, hence a new audience: the artist has divided it into six sections she has planted inside books for sale in the Secession’s shop. Inspired by the literary source and in light of the countless restrictions that limit what the artist can do in a heritage-protected building, Renata Lucas addresses the hermetic setting of her show in the Secession’s basement with an attempt to highlight the interface between interior and exterior spaces. In the form of diary entries, an inmate describes the obscure experiments of the governor of a prison island off the coast of French Guyana: he surgically alters the prisoners’ sense perception to allow them to experience freedom-though only inside their minds-despite their hopeless situation. The conceptual point of departure for the artist’s interventions at the Secession is the Argentinean writer Adolfo Bioy Casares’s story Plan de evasión. In an allusion to her intervention and the visitors’ movements, Renata Lucas has selected short snippets from the song’s lyrics: “she’ll come,” “she’ll go.” The music is trapped in an endless loop: the needle keeps skipping back, its path blocked by a piece of tape. ![]() The moment one of the doors turns to allow someone to pass in or out of the room, the associated turntable is set in motion and a sound is heard: visitor movement and the acoustic environ-ment are immediately correlated, although the melody, a sample from a pop song, is distorted-the pitch is too high or too low, and sometimes the music even plays backwards, depending on the speed and direction in which someone pushes the door. At the same time, the revolution of the doors actuates a mechanism that operates two record players embedded in the floor. Two revolving doors that rotate in both directions and visually blend in with the building’s general style guide the visitors in an almost dancelike movement from the gallery’s entrance to the emergency exit on the other side. In our gallery, Renata Lucas realizes her intervention Ø (Secession 2014). Board of Trustees of the Friends of the Secession.Association of Visual Artists Vienna Secession. ![]()
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