EIKON #75

Editorial Content Order

Artists | Edward Burtynsky | Taj Forer | Nilbar Güres | Ernst Logar |

Contributors | Carl Aigner | Robert Ayers | Thomas Ballhausen | Thomas Edlinger | Arno Gisinger | Marlene Gölz | Matthias Harder | Ruth Horak | Tania Hölzl | Olga Kronsteiner | Jan-Erik Lundström | Alexandra Matzner | Georg Oberhumer | Maren Polte | Maria Rennhofer | Michael Stoeber

Languages | German/ English
Format | 280 x 210 mm
ISBN | 978-3-902250-63-6
96 pages

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Content

ARTIST PAGES

TAJ FORER | Robert Ayers
ERNST LOGAR | Tania Hölzl
NILBAR GÜRES | Ruth Horak
EDWARD BURTYNSKY| Thomas Edlinger
Feature: BACKLIGHT 2011 | Jan-Erik Lundström

STUDENT PAGE

This are we! Bildstein | Glatz

FORUM

Prohibitions in the Space of Art | Georg Oberhumer
20 YEARS OF KUNST HAUS WIEN | Carl Aigner
In Conversation: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui | Maria Rennhofer

KUNSTMARKT

Rare Vintage Prints on the Advance | Maria Rennhofer

AUSSTELLUNGEN

Magic of the Object: Photography from Three Centuries | Franz Thalmair
The Art of Pop Video | Thomas Ballhausen
From the Darkroom with Love | Marlene Gölz
The Explosion of the World of Images | Alexandra Matzner
Jeff Wall: The Crooked Path | Maren Polte
Zonen_prekär | Michael Stoeber
Claude Cahun | Arno Gisinger

Editorial

Backlight, Finland’s photography triennial in Tampere, is this year all about nomads and other migrants, and EIKON devotes a comprehensive feature to the festival in this, our seventy-fifth issue. Beside numerous artist contributions, Jan-Erik Lundström explains in his critical essay the significance of border crossing and examines the political situation of a united Europe that currently not only finds itself in a serious economic crisis, but above all lacks the understanding that unification also means migration and acceptance: the EU is thus caught in a conceptual dilemma as well. Continuing our series In Conversation, this issue’s interview with choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui shows how fruitful intercultural dialog can be. In the work of this artist, issues such as identity, diversity, religion, and culture play a key role. And our Artist Pages in this issue are once again multicultural: in her videos and photography the Austrian-Turkish artist NILBAR GÜRES, tells in a humorous and imaginative way of the traditions, clichés, and fixed gender roles in patriarchal orders. She also provided the cover of this issue, and is featured in the current exhibition on view at EIKON SchAUfenster. The photographs of American artist TAJ FORER and those of Canadian artist EDWARD BURTYNSKY both explore the destruction of our planet. While Forer’s most recent series serves as a kind of visual survival guide for our post-industrial future, Burtynsky’s large format compositions present the traces of the exploitation of terrestrial resources. The Carinthian artist ERNST LOGAR is concerned with what is individually and collectively excluded. In his current series, he photographs spaces that are not accessible to the public. He captures bureaucratic processes of permission and thus tests the great promise of publicity and participation. Our EIKON photography competition is also about spaces, held as part of the celebrations marking the twentieth anniversary of our founding. We received several hundred submissions on “Prohibitions in the Space of Art.” The best among them were chosen by an international jury and shown in a prominent exhibition at Vienna’s Leopold Museum this summer. This and a whole lot more mark the exciting start of a new art season!

Enjoy!
Elisabeth M. Gottfried
And the whole team here at EIKON

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