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Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Art --- anno 1990-1999 --- anno 2000-2009

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The exhibition sets its sights on modernity's design for a more humane and contemporary society since the early twentieth century: a design for new forms of living and new cityscapes. What happened to this utopia? The architecture and design concepts by the artists represented in the exhibition contemplate "models" of utopian, pure design in their state of deterioration. Sometimes preserving moments of the crystalline, they are riddled with decay, entropy, ruin, and "rust" (Smithson), yet find nourishment from the idea of the bricolage, the implementation "of that which is there", from the concept of recycling, so to speak. With that, they formulate final day stages, testing survival on the remnants of a demised civilization. These remnants are the final resources. On the other hand, these approaches thus take up a practically utopian thought of "sustainability", the idea of a better society, born of the spirit of dystopia. Exhibition: Generali Foundation, Vienna, 19 June - 20 September 2009.

Art, Modern --- Art, Modern --- Modernism (Art) --- Art --- Art --- Modernisme (Art) --- Friedman, Yona, --- Gabellone, Giuseppe. --- Gaillard, Cyprien, --- Genzken, Isa, --- Graham, Dan, --- Matta-Clark, Gordon, --- Pumhösl, Florian. --- Smithson, Robert. --- Voerman, Rob. --- Willats, Stephen,

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The exhibition will be accompanied by a book -- the first such publication since the only comprehensive catalogue, produced by the New Museum in 1980 -- that will address individual works and groups of works by Ree Morton in extensive dossiers. Complementing these descriptions will be the artist's numerous and highly informative notebooks and sketchbooks as well as contemporary visual material -- an immense number of documentary photographs by Ree Morton herself -- that will be drawn on to describe and reconstruct the genesis of both existing works and works that have been destroyed or can no longer be located.


The contributors to this publication -- Diana Baldon, Sabine Folie, Susanne Neubauer, Helen Molesworth -- will address the phenomenon and the unique features of 1970's installation art in general and of Ree Morton's art in particular. Rounding out the book will be an extensive chronological biographical and bibliographical survey by Ilse Lafer. The book will be published in February in conjunction with a roundtable discussion that will address the abovementioned issues.

installation artists --- Morton, Ree