open spaces | secret places. Works from the VERBUND COLLECTION, Vienna

SPATIAL FRAGMENTS

Jeff Wall secretively stages fragments of urbanity on the periphery. Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joachim Koester, and Teresa Hubbard/Alexander Birchler examine the fragility of the present given the historical change in space and time. Louise Lawler guides our gaze to places in which artworks are kept and presented. Gordon Matta-Clark deconstructs rooms and houses, cuts them open and radically redefines them for the viewer. Following this style,
Tom Burr creates his sculpture Split, a timber house split into two parts. It is a replica of a multi-seat outhouse from the pre-modern era, with which Burr refers to “a lost form of intimacy”. Fred Sandback breaks with the conventional idea of sculpture and creates a volumes without mass in the space using tensioned threads.

Photos: © Karl Kühn, Vienna