IT'S ALL AN ILLUSION - A SCULPTURE PROJECT
12.6. – 8.8.04

“It’s All an Illusion” is a walk through a fictive park, a stroll through a world of memories of adolescent love, it is the idea of landscape, of a romantic escape to the countryside, of a sunset reflected on the waters of a lake. Images traditionally referring to the outdoors, which, within the museum space, are divorced from their original temporal and spatial setting, appear to be floating in mid-air.

“It’s All an Illusion” takes on the concept of sculpture. A type of sculpture that has developed out of painting, bringing forth its proper sense of three-dimensionality. A type of sculpture that takes on new challenges, liberating itself from strict spatial or temporal confinement, yet still drawing on the roots of its own tradition. A type of sculpture that succumbs to a romanticised notion of nature, but which is transferred from the exterior to the interior, decontextualised within the White cube, its frailness and ambiguity laid bare. “It’s All an Illusion” demonstrates the reworking of minimalist precepts into design quotations, and their gradual return to an artistic context. It is a kaleidoscopic attempt to uproot all static points of reference, to underline their constructedness and to subject them to a process of displacement and abstraction.

Curated by Heike Munder