Siegfried Zaworka
Funktionale
27/09/2019 — 24/09/2022
With Siegfried Zaworka, mumok has for the first time invited an Austrian artist to fill the wall in the museum’s foyer with a site-specific work. Following photography-based installations by Cindy Sherman, Louise Lawler, and Jeff Wall, Zaworka focuses his artistic investigation on the devices used in pain- ting. Under the title Funktionale, he has arranged a group of image elements painted on bare canvas into a temporary mural that artfully toys with the vie- wer’s habits of perception. What looks at first glance like a surreal landscape with a mountain range, fir tree, and vegetal forms, turns out on closer inspec- tion to consist in a systematic analysis of the illusionistic potential of painting.
mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
The largest museum for modern and contemporary art in Central Europe houses an exceptional collection of major works ranging from classical modernism to Pop Art, minimalism, conceptual art, Viennese Actionism, and art from the present. With exhibitions including monographic and themed shows, it is a forum not only for modernism and the neo-avant-garde, but also and particularly for contemporary artists.
