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Group exhibition
«Topsy-Turvy World»

Opening:
Wednesday, February 25, 2015 
Exhibition:
until April 30, 2015

With works by Reto Boller | Jonas Etter | Marcius Galan | Sébastien de Ganay | Alicja  Kwade | Richard Allen Morris | Arnold  Odermatt | Koka Ramishvili | Ariel Schlesinger | Roman Signer
«Topsy-Turvy World» presents artists from our program along with guest who open up unusual views on everyday objects.


Art often finds ways to show us familiar things from unfamiliar perspectives and to reveal characteristics of objects that we do not expect from them in the first place. Tendencies of the 1960s and 1970s, which are one of our gallery’s focal points, essentially aimed at casting new light on the traditional understanding of art. Free from this specifically artistic discourse contemporary artists often focus on a new perception of everyday objects. Sometimes, their creations thus tend to be surreal, comical or absurd. With «Topsy-Turvy World» we will present works that distinctly show these aspects.

In a photograph of Roman Signer for instance, a red kayak in a barrel contrasts with the misty melancholic autumn landscape that surrounds this curious «time sculpture».

In Koka Ramishvili’s videos, someone pours liquid out onto a table instead of into the cup – a gesture that seems funny at first but that in fact is subversive. In Sébastien de Ganay’s work, the national colors of France shine from a traffic light that is literally «folded» and that sounds Serge Gainsbourg’s reggae version of the «Marseillaise». Reto Boller mounts six motorcycle helmets in two rigid rows to the wall. The hardness of the material and the morbid touch of these hollow patterns for human skulls are broken up by an adhesive foil that surrounds the sextet, making it look reminiscent of a flower.

These pieces will be complemented with other works by artists from our program and by an exclusive selection of young external artists whose approach is close to our gallery’s orientation.

Deborah Keller, Häusler Contemporary

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