DEMOLITION Exhibtion: 10/11/2006 - 10/01/2007
In 1857 the emperor
Kaiser Franz Joseph made the decision that Vienna's city wall should
be demolished. In the following years the so called Gesamtkunstwerk
"Wiener Ringstraße" was build in this particular area. The coherence
of the historicistic building replaced the old limes, which delimited
the inner city of the surrounding parts. Within the scope of these
changes, the legendary "Café Griensteidl", a meeting place of writers
and poets, was also supposed to giving way to the putative new architecture.
Karl Kraus thereupon wrote a corrosive satire "The demolished literature",
in which he stultified the "Kaffehaus decadent moderns". He bundled
the new beginning in one sentence: "Vienna is now demolished to a
city". So Vienna incorporates until today the contradiction of an
abstruse morbidity with a tremendous productivity in all cultural
areas. Besides Karl
Kraus` text "The Demolished Literature" works of twelve international
contemporary artists, which deal with the issue "Demolition", are
shown. The various artistic positions and the use of different medias
make it possible to reflect the term "Demolition" and the connected
questions of true reformation and change. |
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