It's All an Illusion - a Sculpture Project

12. June 2004 – 8. August 2004

Featuring artworks by:
Vito Acconci Heidi Bucher Tom Burr Valentin Carron Marc Camille Chaimowicz Liz Craft Keith Edmier Berta Fischer Karim Ghelloussi Mark Handforth Jonathan Monk Olaf Nicolai Manfred Pernice Anselm Reyle Katja Strunz Gary Webb

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“It’s All an Illusion” is a walk through a fictive park, a stroll through a world of memories of adolescent love, it is the idea of landscape, of a romantic escape to the countryside, of a sunset reflected on the waters of a lake. Images traditionally referring to the outdoors, which, within the museum space, are divorced from their original temporal and spatial setting, appear to be floating in mid-air.

“It’s All an Illusion” takes on the concept of sculpture. A type of sculpture that has developed out of painting, bringing forth its proper sense of three-dimensionality. A type of sculpture that takes on new challenges, liberating itself from strict spatial or temporal confinement, yet still drawing on the roots of its own tradition. A type of sculpture that succumbs to a romanticised notion of nature, but which is transferred from the exterior to the interior, decontextualised within the White cube, its frailness and ambiguity laid bare. “It’s All an Illusion” demonstrates the reworking of minimalist precepts into design quotations, and their gradual return to an artistic context. It is a kaleidoscopic attempt to uproot all static points of reference, to underline their constructedness and to subject them to a process of displacement and abstraction.

Curated by Heike Munder

Vito Acconci

: Bodies in the Park (1985)
Vito Acconci

Bodies in the Park
1985
Aluminium, plastic ivy, Astroturf, wood
Dimensions variable

Heidi Bucher

: Jetzt fliesst das Wasser aus der Vase (1986)
Heidi Bucher

Jetzt fliesst das Wasser aus der Vase
1986
Pearlescent pigment, latex, acrylic
154 x 665 x 64 cm

Tom Burr

: Folding Screen (2003)
Tom Burr

Folding Screen
2003
Plywood, wood molding, plexi-mirror, black anodized hardware, three hinged panels
180 x 180 x 6 cm

Valentin Carron

: Untitled (2004)
Valentin Carron

Untitled
2004
Polyurethan, resin
300 x 137 cm

Marc Camille Chaimowicz

: Doublespeed Staircase (1999)
Marc Camille Chaimowicz

Doublespeed Staircase
1999
MDF, industrial paint
410 x 430 x 64 cm

Marc Camille Chaimowicz

: Desk...on Decline (1982 - 2003)
Marc Camille Chaimowicz

Desk...on Decline
1982 - 2003
Hard wood, MDF, industrial paint
75 x 214 x 61 cm

Marc Camille Chaimowicz

: Arch (1977)
Marc Camille Chaimowicz

Arch
1977
MDF, industrial varnish
166 x 385 x 15 cm

Liz Craft

: Pony (2003)
Liz Craft

Pony
2003
Bronze, patina, oil paint
100.5 x 198 x 101.5 cm

Liz Craft

: Venice Witch (2003)
Liz Craft

Venice Witch
2003
Bronze, stainless steel, Venetian beads
160 x 40.5 x 213.5 cm

Keith Edmier

: Fireweed (unknown)
Keith Edmier

Fireweed
unknown
Vinyl, co-polyseter, vinyl monofilament, dental acrylic, paper, oil and acrylic paint, volcanic ash (from Mt. St. Helenes, Washington, 1980), over steel armature
183 x 38 cm