Opening October, 20th, 2014, 7 pm
Studio Steinbrener/Dempf & Huber
Glockengasse 6, 1020 Wien
20. Oktober – 6. Dezember 2014
Ruins embody the cycle in which humans and all they wrest from nature are eventual reclaimed by her. Ruins of the Present spans a curve from the usual ruin aesthetic which mediates thoughts lost in a long distant past to today's perspective that questions the origin of ruins and their current meaning. Are ruins the aesthetic symbol for decoding the state of the world, are they symbols of bloody and bloodless wars, even if they were removed long ago, like the ruins of the World Trade Centre?
Clemens Fürtler, Katya Gardea Browne, Francisca Gómez, Nathalie Grenzhaeuser, DD Handon, Maike Klein und Wolfgang Kampz, Patricia Lambertus, Nadia Lichtig, Pitt Sauerwein, Paul Schwer, Sibylle Springer, Wolfgang Zach
Curated by Ludwig Seyfarth