RED CARPET Showroom Altes Landgut

Installation by NATALIA GUROVA with the support of the Red Carpet Art Award and Marcello Farabegoli Project.

The Alte Landgut made its way back from royal realms to the area of the casinos in Vienna. The artist revives these historical traces in her work. To this end, she deals with the history of boredom (eccentricity, melancholy), which according to historians goes back several centuries. In different countries and times people have been bored in different ways. At the court of Louis XIV, “l’humeur noire” was initially characterised as the state into which courtiers fell during endless dinners. In Russia, on the other hand, melancholy determined existence? A gentleman like Oblomov preferred hibernation to vanity. Which in the XVIII century. The Austrian casinos flourishing in the XVIII century offered the chance to cope with existential boredom. They functioned according to a certain model: round house full of gambling tables. Roulette set the standard for the passing of time at the gambling table. The artist wants to find out how the state of boredom is reflected in the rituals of the Old Country Estate. The subway pays a bill for these rituals and carries away the burden of everyday life.