IMAGES  a project by spike art magazine

One artistic work leads several different lives: as an original, a reproduction, a story and a memory. The exhibition Images is concerned with the idea of the reproduction as a picture. Not as appropriation, but rather as part of everyday life: the reproduction of artistic works in catalogues, books, magazines, portfolios, press folders, archives and on websites, as well as their aesthetic structures. In the variety of ways they appear, these “secondary pictures”, which are omnipresent in the art world, constitute an enormous parallel exhibition above and beyond temporal and local conditions. In this sense, these “pictures of pictures” are not actually a secondary phenomenon at all, but a separate field with its own definable significance. Images asserts that parallel pictures are autonomous and have an aura of their own, which is derived from the particular features of their materials, colours and dimensions, but is also based on the paths these pictures take through the imagination - as well as the pragmatism of their distribution.
With: John Armleder, Daniel Baumann, Will Benedict, Catrin Bolt, Burghard, Plamen Dejanoff, Severin Dünser, Christian Egger, Cyprien Gaillard, Mario García Torres, Liam Gillick, Hans-Jürgen Hafner, Nicolas Jasmin, Christian Kobald, Sonia Leimer, Christian Mayer, Jonathan Monk, Marcus Neufanger, Flora Neuwirth, Falke Pisano, Seth Price, Stefan Sandner, Christoph Steinegger, Axel Stockburger, Betty Tompkins, Rita Vitorelli, Arye Wachsmuth       

Opening: 25.09., 6 pm
Duration: 26.09. until 07.10.
1., Bauernmarkt 1, 2. Stock
in cooperation with Into Position