Publisher's Synopsis
Heimo Zobernig uses a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, video, installations, architectural interventions and performance art. His works seem to question the usual art narrative, in media such as architecture, design and theatre, by stirring up the underlying ideological positions and reinterpreting them with a characteristic economy of means, materials and methodologies. In this publication all of the works presented are traced back historically to the beginning of the 1980s with regard to their origins. Alongside a contextualising text by the exhibition's curator, Jürgen Bock, commenting on the oeuvre of this internationally renowned Austrian artist are Achim Hochdörfer on the meaning of painting, Andrew Renton on Beckettian theatricality and Gertrud Sandqvist on its art-historical aspects.
