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ab_bilden (de_pict)
Gregor Eggenberger, Claudia Larcher, Sinta Werner
Austrian Cultural Forum/Austrian Embassy Berlin
September 30, 2020 – June 18, 2021
The architecture of the Austrian Embassy, built according to a design of Hans Hollein, represents the starting-point for the exhibition, where three artists trace in various ways the “spirit” of the 1990s, soaked in Postmodernism, as well as Hollein’s formal language and interdisciplinary approach.
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Richard Feigen Gallery, 2020
from the series Acute-Matte
Gregor Eggenberger
Richard Feigen Gallery, 2020
from the series Acute-Matte
gelatine silver print on baryta paper
55 x 77 cm
Edition of: 3 + I
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ab_bilden (de_pict)
Gregor Eggenberger, Claudia Larcher, Sinta Werner
Austrian Cultural Forum/Austrian Embassy Berlin
September 30, 2020 – June 18, 2021
The architecture of the Austrian Embassy, built according to a design of Hans Hollein, represents the starting-point for the exhibition, where three artists trace in various ways the “spirit” of the 1990s, soaked in Postmodernism, as well as Hollein’s formal language and interdisciplinary approach.
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HN - 129-002-M, MMK Frankfurt am Main (upside-down), 2020
from the series Acute-Matte
Gregor Eggenberger
HN – 129-002-M, MMK Frankfurt am Main (upside-down), 2020
from the series Acute-Matte
C-print
118 x 90 cm
Edition of: 3 + I
Archiv Hans Hollein, AzW and MAK, Vienna
© Gregor Eggenberger
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© Studio Eggenberger
“ab_bilden”, installation view, Austrian Cultural Forum/Austrian Embassy Berlin, 2020
© Studio Eggenberger
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Hans Hollein’s pathbreaking manifesto Alles ist Architektur was published in the magazine BAU in 1968 and is remarkable for an unexpected collection of numerous examples from art and everyday life, all of which is architecture in the broadest sense. Alles ist Fotografie is a homage to this manifesto, its status quo and related utopias.
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Gregor Eggenberger aligns himself with the “universal artist” Hans Hollein by taking on the roles of publisher and curator in addition to that of artist. Thus, as a homage to Hollein and his radical publication Alles ist Architektur (Everything is Architecture, 1968), Eggenberger has published a manifesto entitled Alles ist Fotografie (Everything is Photography, 2020).
At the same time, in the photographic series Acute Matte, the architect Hollein is examined through a focus on Eggenberger’s photographic technique, and the split image is used as a stylistic means for working out the architect’s nonconformist view formally, using shifts and interruptions to the reproduced axes.
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HN – 129-001-M, MMK Frankfurt am Main, Ostspitze, 2020
from the series Acute-Matte
Gregor Eggenberger
HN – 129-001-M, MMK Frankfurt am Main, Ostspitze, 2020
from the series Acute-Matte
C-print
118 x 90 cm
Edition of: 3 + I
Archiv Hans Hollein, AzW and MAK, Vienna
© Gregor Eggenberger
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HN - 129-002-M, MMK Frankfurt am Main (upside-down), 2020
from the series Acute-Matte
Gregor Eggenberger
HN – 129-002-M, MMK Frankfurt am Main (upside-down), 2020
from the series Acute-Matte
C-print
118 x 90 cm
Edition of: 3 + I
Archiv Hans Hollein, AzW and MAK, Vienna
© Gregor Eggenberger
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© Studio Eggenberger
“ab_bilden”, installation view, Austrian Cultural Forum/Austrian Embassy Berlin, 2020
© Studio Eggenberger
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Gregor Eggenberger aligns himself with the “universal artist” Hans Hollein by taking on the roles of publisher and curator in addition to that of artist. Thus, as a homage to Hollein and his radical publication Alles ist Architektur (Everything is Architecture, 1968), Eggenberger has published a manifesto entitled Alles ist Fotografie (Everything is Photography, 2020).
At the same time, in the photographic series Acute Matte, the architect Hollein is examined through a focus on Eggenberger’s photographic technique, and the split image is used as a stylistic means for working out the architect’s nonconformist view formally, using shifts and interruptions to the reproduced axes.
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HN – 129-001-M, MMK Frankfurt am Main, Ostspitze, 2020
from the series Acute-Matte
Gregor Eggenberger
HN – 129-001-M, MMK Frankfurt am Main, Ostspitze, 2020
from the series Acute-Matte
C-print
118 x 90 cm
Edition of: 3 + I
Archiv Hans Hollein, AzW and MAK, Vienna
© Gregor Eggenberger
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detail from Split Image (FC/CFV-50c), 2020
from the series Acute-Matte
site-specific installation (wallpaper)
approx. 3 x 7,6 m
Gregor Eggenberger
detail from Split Image (FC/CFV-50c), 2020
from the series Acute-Matte
site-specific installation (wallpaper)
approx. 3 x 7,6 m
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Hans Hollein’s pathbreaking manifesto Alles ist Architektur was published in the magazine BAU in 1968 and is remarkable for an unexpected collection of numerous examples from art and everyday life, all of which is architecture in the broadest sense. Alles ist Fotografie is a homage to this manifesto, its status quo and related utopias.
© Studio Eggenberger
“ab_bilden”, installation view, Austrian Cultural Forum/Austrian Embassy Berlin, 2020
© Studio Eggenberger
Gregor Eggenberger
Alles ist Fotografie, 2020
manifesto, 68 pages, with supplement
approx. 80 illustrations
33 x 23,7 cm
Edition of: 500
Alles ist Fotografie has been produced as an artistic contribution by Gregor Eggenberger on the occasion of the exhibition “ab_bilden”.
manifesto, 68 pages, with supplement
33 x 23,7 cm
Edition of: 500
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