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Human Condition

Empathy and Emancipation in Precarious Times

  • 31.08.-12.09.2010

Press Information

Human Condition
Empathy and Emancipation in Precarious Times

Press conference: 11.06.2010, 10:30 am

Opening: 12.06.2010, 11 am
Duration: 12.06.-12.09.2010
Curator: Adam Budak

The Exhibition is part of our main topic of the year The way we live

Exhibition Information: +43-316/8017-9200
Press Information: +43/316/8017-9213 and -9211
presse@museum-joanneum.at

Images
 

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Material

Lida Abdul, White House, 2005 (Film Still, Detail)

Courtesy of the artist and Giorgio Persano, Torino

Lida Abdul, In Transit, 2008 (Filmstill)

16 mm film on DVD, 4 min 55 s
Courtesy of the artist and Giorgio Persano, Torino

Marcel Dzama, Pip, 2004

Sculpture: clothing with felt and fake fur, wire mesh, papier mâché, plastic foam, rubber, 185 × 60 × 45 cm; accompanied
by 5 unframed drawings and 1 framed watercolour Private collection, Munich
Courtesy of Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf; David Zwirner, New York
Exhibition View
Photo: UMJ / N. Lackner

Marcel Dzama, Surrounded by his dark machines and the rage of the wild or An epic of humanity, 2008

Collage on paper, 30.2 × 22.9 cm
Private collection
Courtesy of Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf; David Zwirner, New York
Photo: Achim Kukulies, Düsseldorf

Marcel Dzama, Ulysses

Photo: UMJ / Nicolas Lackner

Maria Lassnig, Woman Laokoon, 1976

Oil/canvas, 193 × 127 cm
Neue Galerie Graz, Universalmuseum Joanneum
Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum, Nicolas Lackner

Installation view

Exhibition view
Photo: UMJ / Nicolas Lackner

Mark Manders, Small Unfired Clay Figure, 2006/07

Iron, painted epoxy, wood, painted wood, book, 153.5 × 64 × 29 cm
Collection Raf Simons, Belgium
Installation view
Courtesy of Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp
Photo: UMJ / N.Lackner

Renzo Martens, Episode 3, 2009 (Videostill)

Video installation, PAL 16:9, HD, sound, color, 90 min; 2 metal trunks with master tape, some neon signs, a picture made in collaboration with
Aphoka, Association des Photographes de Kanyabayonga, 84 × 47 × 35 cm and 65 × 30 × 24 cm
Courtesy of Galerie Fons Welters and Wilkinson Gallery

Kris Martin, Bells, 2008

Bronze bells, 30 × 50 × 60 ○/ 30 cm
Courtesy of Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf
Exhibition view
Photo: UMJ / N. Lackner

Kris Martin, Mandi VIII, 2006

Plaster, 221 × 150 × 100 cm
David Roberts Collection, London
Courtesy of Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf
Photo: UMJ / N. Lackner

Adrian Paci, Electric Blue, 2010 (Filmstill)

HD Video, approx. 15 min
Courtesy of the artist; Francesca Kaufmann, Milano; Peter Kilchmann Galerie, Zurich; Peter Blum Gallery, New York

Adrian Paci, Per Speculum, 2006 (Filmstill)

35 mm film, 6 min 53 s
Courtesy of the artist; Francesca Kaufmann, Milano; Peter Kilchmann Galerie, Zurich; Peter Blum Gallery, New York

Adam Budak

Photo: UMJ / Nicolas Lackner

Installation view

Photo: UMJ / Nicolas Lackner

Installation view

Photo: UMJ / Nicolas Lackner

Installation view

Maria Lassnig, Woman Laokoon, 1976
Oil/canvas, 193 × 127 cm
Neue Galerie Graz, Universalmuseum Joanneum
Photo: UMJ / Nicolas Lackner

Installation view

Photo: UMJ / Nicolas Lackner