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EIKON #82


EIKON #82

Artists | Doug Aitken | Annabelle Fürstenau | Sissa Micheli | Gregor Sailer | Anri Sala | Didi Sattmann |

Contributors | Robert Ayers | Thomas Ballhausen | Thomas Edlinger | Regine Ehleiter | Lucas Gehrmann | Marlene Gölz | Jasmin Haselsteiner-Scharner | Ruth Horak | Manisha Jothady | Peter Kunitzky | Andreas Müller | Sebastian Müller | Ute Noll | Maria Rennhofer | Didi Sattmann | Angelika Schweiger | Andreas Spiegl | Raimar Stange

Languages | German / English
Dimensions | 280 x 210 mm
ISBN | 978-3-902250-71-1
72 pages

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Content

ARTIST PAGES

DOUG AITKEN | Robert Ayers
ANNABELLE FÜRSTENAU | Lucas Gehrmann
GREGOR SAILER | Thomas Edlinger
SISSA MICHELI | Ruth Horak
ANRI SALA | Raimar Stange

STUDENT PAGE

JUMPEI SHIMADA

FORUM

In Conversation: Christian Lacroix | Maria Rennhofer
Reaching People through Photography | Didi Sattmann
Aperture 11 | Andreas Spiegl
A Photography Space for Our Time: Collection Spallart | Andreas Müller

AUSSTELLUNGEN

Lewis Baltz | Manisha Jothady
Nam June Paik: Global Visionary | Angelika Schweiger
Miroslav Tichý: The City of Women | Ute Noll
Move on Asia: Video Art in Asia 2002 to 2012 | Regine Ehleiter
Judith Huemer: Territory | Jasmin Haselsteiner-Scharner

Editorial

Fittingly for the approaching summer, we’ve decided to strew flowers
across the cover of this issue—or more precisely, Aquilegia (weiße Akelei) by ANNABELLE FÜRSTENAU. The inflorescences here depicted
were subjected to the detailed gaze of the artist using a large format
camera and translated to a herbarium consisting of the tiniest elements.
The virtually calligraphic elements evoke associations to the
strict academic (visual) language of Karl Blossfeldt and oscillate,
lined up in rows, between undecipherable writing and icon.
ANRI SALA’s artworks—videos and installations—approach the
problem of legibility on a different level. In the film work Answer
Me, for example, the protagonist’s question remains unanswered due
to problems of communication. France’s representative at this year’s
Venice Biennale, Sala also explores communication as a phenomenon
in the project Ravel Ravel Unravel.
Multimedia artist DOUG AITKEN pursues different paths of
communication and reverses the roles of addresser and addressee by
having the artwork answer the beholder. The permanent installation
Mirror, installed on the façade of Seattle Art Museum in late March
this year, responds like a kaleidoscope and a “living system,” as Aitken
puts it, to passersby, traffic, and weather conditions.
If cities are generally understood as points of communication,
GREGOR SAILER’s documentations of urban space show that there
are also urban structures that counteract this concept. In his latest
project, Closed Cities, the photographer succeeds in capturing six
systems closed to the public on three different continents, thanks to
his intense research and perseverance.
In contrast, SISSA MICHELI brings an abandoned 1930s mansion
back to life, making it a stage for histories constructed temporally and
thematically. Using the media of film, installation, and photography,
she creates camera directions for a film that hasn’t (yet) been made and leaves it to the beholder to imagine the possibilities.
Have fun with this issue!

For all of us here at EIKON,

Nela Eggenberger

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