Exhibition
ONE MONUMENT IN TIME
60 Years FORUM STADTPARK
It is part of the essence of public monuments to interweave the present and thus everyday urban life with a collective past. In Graz's Stadtpark, too, monuments function both spatially and temporally as fixed points that show us the passing of time as we walk by. Here, however, many a monument has lost its historically reminiscent function and has become a mere backdrop.
Where strict monument protection covers the entire park like a leaden cloak, artists are all the more challenged to become active with subtle interventions and to undermine the all too familiar with their temporary settings: What could conceivable monuments do today? Where are the points of contact with what moves us today? And how temporary can a so-called "monument" actually be?
With Martin Behr, Anita Fuchs, Marlene Haring, Marlene Hausegger, Sasha Kurmaz, Luiza Margan/Eduard Friedmann, Ryts Monet, Rainer Nöbauer-Kammerer, Josef Pillhofer, Werner Reiterer, Winfried Ritsch, Pavla Sceranková, Anna Vasof
Curated by zweintopf
In cooperation with Institut für Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Steiermark
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the exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue
FORUM KUNST HEUTE / (FORUM ART TODAY)
ed. by zweintopf
One Monument in Time
Publisher Forum Stadtpark
29,7 x 42cm, stapled
ISBN: 978-3-901109-76-8
150 copies, numbered
voluntary donation
Design and layout: Anna Jochum, Sophie Löw
Printing: Risograd
