Biennale
Gherdëina III
3rd Biennale Gherdëina
Art in the public interest
20.07. –
05.10.2012
curated by Günther Oberhollenzer
Concept
Art in the public interest - Contemporary sculptures in the pedestrian zone of Ortisei
"Sculpture does not desire to exist independently of the viewer, as if it were given from the beginning, ready and waiting to be taken away (...). The sculpture waits for the intuition, the subjectivity and the arbitrariness of the creative viewer, who is invited to fill its vacancy, as if to believe that everything depends on us, that we are everything and that it is nothing. Silent, non-authoritarian, without anecdotal chatter and without prompting, this work is open to the viewing subject who will reveal it. As a deferred and latent word, it depends on being spoken."
Rémy Zaugg, The Cunning of Innocence.
The Perception of a Sculpture, 1982
Günther Oberhollenzer (*1976) has been curator at the Landesgalerie Niederösterreich, a new museum for modern and contemporary art in Krems (opening 2019), since 2016. He studied art history and history in Innsbruck and Venice and cultural management in Vienna. From 2006 to 2015 he was curator at the Essl Museum in Klosterneuburg near Vienna. In addition to his work as a curator, he is a lecturer at the Institute for Cultural Management and Gender Studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. In 2014, his book "Von der Liebe zur Kunst" was published by Limbus Verlag Innsbruck.
Curator
Artists
Doris Ghetta – Director•Beatrix Insam – Amministration and Organisation•Igor Comploi – Production manager•Judith Sotriffer – Assistant•Simon Perathoner – Photographer•Diego Moroder – Webdesigner