The two Swiss artists, Marcel Biefer (born in 1959) and Beat Zgraggen (born in
1958), have been working together since 1983 and surprise the viewer with their
subversive socio-cultural explorations of the theme of art.
They avoid any sense of high-mindedness, with which art often tries to legitimise
itself, in an humorous and ironical way. In videos and installations in their
research project "Telekolleg Kunst" in the Vienna Secession they discuss
and subvert the most diverse thematic areas in the art world, such as art and
artists, galleries, art patronage, art education
With such daring ideas
as "naïve feeling could only establish itself as a figurative style
and could not be realised as a concrete, conceptual or contextual style: for this
reason, only the consideration of the whole of contemporary modern art can - and
that is the problem - be valid", Biefer and Zgraggen lead the visitor through
the exhibition in the Vienna Secession by the nose.
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BIEFER/ZGRAGGEN
Telekolleg Kunst
Videoinstallationen
24 Seiten, 3-Farbendruck
Secession 1996, ISBN 3-900803-81-1
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