Curtain
Subtitle: a living museum space : the Vienna State Opera safety curtain = Vorhang : ein lebendiger Museumsraum : der eiserne Vorhang der Wiener Staatsoper
By: Heruasgeber = editor, Museum in Progress, Kaspar Mühlemann Hartl, Wiener Staatsoper, Direktor, Dominique Meyer ; Texte = texts, Daniel Birnbaum [and twenty-two others]
Contributors: Museum in progress (Association); Wiener Staatsoper; Bildraum Bodensee (Bregenz, Austria)
Publisher: Verlag für Moderne Kunst
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Wien
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9783903228115
Subjects: Exhibitions; Modern Art; Art and opera; Theater curtains; Wiener Staatsoper
Other titles: Vorhang :
Description: This volume documents the long-term initiative 'Safety Curtain' of Museum in progress, a project that is unique in the world. The exhibition series in the Vienna State Opera has represented a symbolic interface between performance and visual arts since 1998. It also creates a link between thorny historical questions and contemporary ways to address them. Beyond the actual curtain images that have originated over the years an associative and sensuous view to further related works of the participating artists in several different media forms is presented. The art project 'Safety Curtain', because of its exceptional quality, its year-long existence and its unusual dimension of 175 m² is singular and enables a distinctive perspective of art history of the past twenty years.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Vienna State Opera, 2017-2018, and at Bildraum Bodensee, Bregenz, Austria, 2018.

Includes works by: Tauba Auberbach, John Baldessari, Matthew Barney, Thomas Bayrle, Tacita Dean, Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset, Cerith Wyn Evans, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Richard Hamilton, David Hockney, Christine & Irene Hohenbüchler, Joan Jonas, Jeff Koons, Maria Paolini, Kirkrit Tiravanija, Rosemarie Trockel, Cy Twombly, Kara Walker, Franz West.

Includes bibliographical references.

Parallel texts in English and German.