The exhibition at Kunstverein Weiden presents a selection of works of American art from the 1980s and 1990s, which were on display at the Rudolfinum in Prague one year before in the presentation American Art from the Goetz Collection.
With Carol Dunham, Mary Heilmann, Jenny Holzer, Mike Kelley, Tony Oursler, Richard Prince and Jessica Stockholder.
Twenty-four works by eight American artists are on view. The predominantly multi-part works present the entire spectrum of artistic creativity, ranging from drawings, graphic works, paintings and photographs to spatial installations and works of media art, all of which explore socio-political issues in a critical, exciting and intellectual way.
The American artist Sterling Ruby, who lives and works in Los Angeles, is known for his multi-disciplinary body of work, which includes sculptures, ceramics, bronzes, collages, textiles, and expansive spray-painted canvases in which he intertwines a wide variety of autobiographical, art historical, and sociological sources. Through deconstruction and reconstruction, Ruby explores the idea of a non-hierarchical and borderless universe. The exhibition at the Sammlung Goetz /Schaufenster lends insight into his multifaceted artistic practice through a selection of works created between 2008 and 2016.
Canadian artist Jeff Wall is one of the most influential photographers of our time. In his elaborately staged pictorial compositions, he combines the narrative of cinema with painting. Wall became known for his large-format lightbox images, which are formally more reminiscent of the world of advertising than that of fine art. With this technique, he revolutionized the medium of photography, elevating it to the height of painting and sculpture. The exhibition at the Sammlung Goetz /Schaufenster presents a selection of his iconic lightbox images from the 1990s.