The interdisciplinary working artist Josef Trattner has been working with the material foam for many years and realizes projects in public space using this material. An essential characteristic of his works is the overlapping of art-immanent aspects – the relationship of materiality, form and colour to interior and exterior space – with social issues. His ephemeral stagings in natural and urban spaces, which dissolve into nothing again after being changed by the public and weather influences, are always also social experimental arrangements that are inscribed with a self-reflexive and critical potential.
Exclusively for the Friedrich Kiesler Foundation a room sculpture with the dimensions 3 x 3 x 3 meters was realized, which can be used by the audience. Models, photos and a film documenting the creation of the sculpture will also be shown.
Österreichische Friedrich und Lillian Kiesler-Privatstiftung
Die Österreichische Friedrich und Lillian Kiesler-Privatstiftung wurde 1997 mit dem Erwerb des Nachlasses von Friedrich Kiesler (1890–1965) durch die Republik Österreich und die Stadt Wien mit der Hilfe zahlreicher privater Stifter:innen gegründet. Ihre Aufgabe ist es, das Erbe des austro-amerikanischen Architekten zu erforschen und der aktuellen Architektur- und Kunstproduktion einzuschreiben.
Josef Trattner: Inside Out
28 Feb 2020 - 31 Mar 2021
TUE–FF 9.00–17.00