Die Moderne als Ruine
Subtitle: eine Archäologie der Gegenwart = Modernism as a ruin : an archaeology of the present
By: herausgegeben von Sabine Folie
Contributors: Generali Foundation (Vienna, Austria)
Publisher: Verlag für Moderne Kunst; Generali Foundation
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Nürnberg; Wien
Language: ger; eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9783941185821; 9783901107580
Copyright date: 2009
Subjects: Modern Art; Exhibitions; Modernism (Art)
Other titles: Archäologie der Gegenwart; Modernism as a ruin :; Archaeology of the present
Description: Summary: The exhibition sets its sights on modernity's design for a more humane and contemporary society since the early twentieth century: a design for new forms of living and new cityscapes. What happened to this utopia? The architecture and design concepts by the artists represented in the exhibition contemplate "models" of utopian, pure design in their state of deterioration. Sometimes preserving moments of the crystalline, they are riddled with decay, entropy, ruin, and "rust" (Smithson), yet find nourishment from the idea of the bricolage, the implementation "of that which is there", from the concept of recycling, so to speak. With that, they formulate final day stages, testing survival on the remnants of a demised civilization. These remnants are the final resources. On the other hand, these approaches thus take up a practically utopian thought of "sustainability", the idea of a better society, born of the spirit of dystopia. Exhibition: Generali Foundation, Vienna, 19 June - 20 September 2009.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Generali Foundation, Vienna, June 19-Sept. 20, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-215).

German and English.
Table of contents: title: Das Verschwinden der Architektur als Thema der Kunst = The disappearance of architecture as an artistic theme / Kai Vöckler; title: Living archaeology : Gordon Matta-Clark und das New York der 1970er-Jahre = Gordon Matta-Clark and 1970s New York / Philip Ursprung; title: Vom Überfluss zur Armut = From excess to impoverishment / Yona Friedman; title: Hotel Palenque / Robert Smithson; title: Gordon Matta-Clark : Filme von Doris Leutgeb = films by Doris Leutgeb / Gordon Matta-Clark; title: Wie ich meine Fluchtwege organisiere = Organising my means of escape / Stephen Willats; title: Privater "öffentlicher" Raum : die Atriumgärten von Firmengebäuden von Dan Graham und Robin Hurst = Private 'public' space : the corporate atrium garden by Dan Graham and Robin Hurst / Dan Graham; title: Genzkens Gambit von Lisa Lee = Genzken's gambit by Lisa Lee / Isa Genzken; title: Orange ist mehr als eine Farbe von Sabeth Buchmann = Orange is more than a color by Sabeth Buchmann / Jeroen de Rijke, Willem de Rooij; title: Rob Voerman : Tarnung von Sabine Folie = camouflage by Sabine Folie / Rob Voerman; title: Florian Pumhösls kritische Ästhetik von Juli Carson = Florian Pumhösl's critical aesthetics by Juli Carson / Florian Pumhösl; title: Eine fiktive Genealogie zwischen Smithson und Gabellone von Sabine Folie = A fictive genealogy bringing together Smithson and Gabellone by Sabine Folie / Giuseppe Gabellone; title: Urbane Romantik von Ilse Lafer = Urban romanticism by Isle Lafer / Cyprien Gaillard.