Centrum / Zentrum
The art project deals with an institutional and three-dimensional change, which will arise during the preparation and installation of the exhibition. The project is carried out in Prague in the Austrian Cultural Centre (Zentrum, 14.1. – 22.2. 2011) and in Vienna in the Czech Centre (Centrum, 19.1. – 3.3. 2011). Dominik Lang, Marcus Geiger and Martin Mazanec worked on the exhibitions.Zentrum
Marcus Geiger (*1957, Muri/Switzerland) lives in Vienna. He belongs to a generation of European artists who graduated in the late seventies, went through a lesson of action art, performances and changed the new painting of the eighties into “neo-geo”. Typical for Geiger is his relation to space, into which he intervenes to create new situatons and to disturbs its common use. He oscillates among three-dimensional sculpture, installation and architecture all the time. He likes settling down in already marked territory, he takes advantage of all outer circumstances and puts them into his work and in a way thus rehabilitates everydayness and ordinariness.
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Dominik Lang (1980) represents a generation of visual artists examinig natural relations of three-dimensional and architectonic determinatenesses. Marcus Geiger (1957) belongs to a generation of European artists working with a concept of „artwork“, typical is a relation to space, into which he intervenes to create new situatons and to disturbs its common use. Martin Mazanec (1981) represents a generation of dramaturgs and curators of a moving picture, dealing with aspects of art presentation in the context of cinemas and exhibition halls.
- THE CENTER RKF Gallery, Czech Center00:00:04.425
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- Czech Center Vienna00:00:14.931
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- We have used a well known strategy00:00:21.946
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- that has several variants.00:00:27.413
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- We've transferred two spaces00:00:30.438
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- and their furnishings00:00:33.965
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- between the Czech Center in Vienna00:00:38.505
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- and the Austrian Cultural Forum in Prague,00:00:41.975
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- the former Austrian Cultural Center.00:00:45.475
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- Hence the word "center"00:00:48.885
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- in the title of the exhibition.00:00:51.385
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- The furnishings of the director's offices00:00:54.385
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- in both institutions have been exchanged,00:00:57.885
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- including the bookcases, the desks etc.00:01:01.331
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- During the preparations,00:01:06.078
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- the states of the exhibits were oscillating00:01:09.078
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- between furniture sculptures,00:01:12.752
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- installations developing the objects00:01:15.857
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- that had been brought here,00:01:20.187
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- and imitations of the directors' offices00:01:28.097
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- with the furniture laid out accordingly.00:01:31.813
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- Geiger added to all those objects00:01:35.862
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- a unifying element:00:01:39.257
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- they all stand on a carpet00:01:41.989
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- saying CENTRUM-ZENTRUM.00:01:44.989
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- This strategy fits Geiger like a glove00:01:50.787
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- because he usually thinks a lot00:01:57.547
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- about any slight shift.00:02:00.547
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- People sometimes talk00:02:03.553
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- about the esthetics of minimal differences00:02:06.053
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- or about subtle shifts,00:02:09.625
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- and that's what he's very good at.00:02:12.477
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- Camera, editing00:02:48.660