Kunsthaus Zug, Dorfstrasse 27, 6300 Zug
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CHF 15.00, reduced
Architect, artist, stage designer, designer and visionary - the Kunsthaus Zug is dedicating the exhibition "Us, You, Me" to the exceptional Austrian-American artist.
riedrich Kiesler was one of the most fascinating personalities of the 20th century: born in Czernowitz (formerly Austria-Hungary, now Ukraine) and educated in Vienna, he remains an inspiration for artists from a wide range of disciplines to this day. A multifaceted artist of the century who is still to be discovered by many.
Before he became active as an artist himself in 1947, he was primarily known as an architect and theater reformer. He staged unconventional exhibitions for his artist friends, which became an installative art form. Kiesler bridged the gap between Viennese Modernism and De Stijl, Surrealism and the American avant-garde of the 1960s. His circle of friends reads like a who's who of the art world: from Egon Schiele, Hans Arp and Marcel Duchamp to Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol. Probably no other artist has had such a long and wide-ranging impact in such different worlds.
The exhibition "Us, You, Me" at the Kunsthaus Zug explores an aspect of Kiesler's visual art that has received little attention to date. His innovative paintings and sculptures interact with their spatial and social surroundings - nothing exists on its own. For the exceptional artist Kiesler, life and art were always in motion and changeable. The Kunsthaus Zug developed the exhibition over several years in collaboration with the Austrian Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation in Vienna and the Estate of Frederick Kiesler in New York, with loans from Germany, Austria and the USA. The exhibition, with many works that are rarely or never shown before, can be seen exclusively in Zug. It will be accompanied by a program of events and a scholarly publication.
Curated by Stephanie Buhmann, New York, Matthias Haldemann and Gerd Zillner, Vienna
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.
Before he became active as an artist himself in 1947, he was primarily known as an architect and theater reformer. He staged unconventional exhibitions for his artist friends, which became an installative art form. Kiesler bridged the gap between Viennese Modernism and De Stijl, Surrealism and the American avant-garde of the 1960s. His circle of friends reads like a who's who of the art world: from Egon Schiele, Hans Arp and Marcel Duchamp to Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol. Probably no other artist has had such a long and wide-ranging impact in such different worlds.
The exhibition "Us, You, Me" at the Kunsthaus Zug explores an aspect of Kiesler's visual art that has received little attention to date. His innovative paintings and sculptures interact with their spatial and social surroundings - nothing exists on its own. For the exceptional artist Kiesler, life and art were always in motion and changeable. The Kunsthaus Zug developed the exhibition over several years in collaboration with the Austrian Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation in Vienna and the Estate of Frederick Kiesler in New York, with loans from Germany, Austria and the USA. The exhibition, with many works that are rarely or never shown before, can be seen exclusively in Zug. It will be accompanied by a program of events and a scholarly publication.
Curated by Stephanie Buhmann, New York, Matthias Haldemann and Gerd Zillner, Vienna
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.
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