Analog Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig – curated by Julia Schäfer
Analog
Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig
curated by Julia Schäfer
September–October 2006
Exhibition views:
@ Andreas Enrico Grunert
GfZK–Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig
[…] The exhibition Analog was developed as a survey of Dorit Margreiter’s artistic exploration of architecture, architecture as representative of characters in film production, architecture being built as entertainment and shopping worlds next to and outside our real one, architecture being re-built for science and funding. She focuses not only on high-culture-architecture made by star-architects like John Lautner or Frank Lloyd Wright. She’s also interested in the fake plastic of those designed for commercial purposes and satisfaction of the masses. Let’s call this low-culture-architecture. What does each special building or space-ensemble represent (or what has it represented) and how is it used? The exhibition was divided into three equally sized spatial sequences. Central to the first work is a late modernist house by the architect John Lautner, 10104 Angelo View Drive (2004). This is followed by several work groups close together that connect the first and third parts of the exhibition. The work zentrum (2006), which was created in Leipzig, concluded the exhibition and shows Margreiter’s attempt to reanimate the legacy of socialist modernism – or more precisely its neon lettering. All the works combined an interest in images from print media, film and entertainment. The artist investigates the influence of these images on collective and individual social memory.[…]
Text by Julia Schäfer