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THOMAS HIRSCHHORNISA ROSENBERGER, MIKLÓS ERHARDT05 July 2008 - 04 September 2008 The Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn, who has appeared many times in international exhibitions since the 1990s, is renowned for unequivocal political statements in his art. His elaborate, spatially expansive installations are usually devised using radically “poor”, highly symbolic materials such as cardboard, sellotape, household foils, photocopies and newspaper cuttings. The use of these materials is a conscious political decision against a separation into the categories of “high” and “low”. Hirschhorn’s understanding of art as socio-political engagement is not geared towards aesthetic enjoyment but is conceived rather as a starting point for engagement. Hirschhorn’s vocabulary is directed against the élite and in so doing highlights the periphery, the precarious, the fringes: “I am adamantly opposed to the idea of creating political art. I create art in a political way.”Thomas Hirschhorn, born 1957, lives and works in Paris. ISA ROSENBERGER vIsa Rosenberger’s work engages with a variety of socio-political themes, in particular the urban world, gender and the public arena. She focuses upon mental and medial images that have a specific function of creating identity, as well as the question regarding the possibilities for changing these (symbolic) value systems. Rosenberger initiates a process of exchange for her projects and tries to transmit therein the viewpoints and experience of others. She works with a variety of media, but chiefly with video for which she has devised both indoor and outdoor installative displays. Isa Rosenberger’s new video piece is entitled NOVY MOST after the bridge of the same name built in 1967 in Bratislava, representing the view from the East to the West. Documentary and staged scenes as well as archive material about the building of NOVY MOST are fused into a filmic collage about the dynamic tensions in the relationship between East and West from the (subjective) perspectives of three women from different generations. Alongside the video work NOVY MOST Isa Rosenberger will be presenting the projects EIN DENKMAL FÜR DAS FRAUENZENTRUM (THE MAKING OF) [A MONUMENT FOR THE WOMEN’S CENTRE], 2005/06, and DIE WARSCHAUER NIKE [THE WARSAW NIKE]. All three works examine the process of transformation in Eastern Europe the artist is endeavouring to chronicle in a changed perception of monuments and architecture. Isa Rosenberger, born 1969, lives and works in Vienna. MIKLÓS ERHARDT In his often documentary and collaborative artistic works, publications and network activities, the Hungarian artist Miklós Erhardt engages chiefly with reflections on political, economic topics in contemporary art. Since talking and thinking about the economy has increasingly become the preserve of experts, this discussion has commensurately lost its connection to everyday life. Accordingly the economy is regarded more and more as an independent degree of complexity that the public can no longer control, still less comprehend. Miklós Erhardt engages with this predicament in part in interviews, which he conducts with workers, business people, social workers and immigrants inviting them to evaluate their personal work situation. The results represent extremely individual attitudes and appraisals of the world of commerce and the concept of labour. Miklós Erhardt, born 1966, lives and works in Budapest. Location:
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