HANS SCHABUS

EXHIBITION PROGRAM 1996

"objects"
Graphic Cabinet
Sep 27 – Nov 3, 1996



Hans Schabus, 1993, 1993


The work of Hans Schabus, who was born in Watschig in Carinthia in 1970 and who recently finished his studies at the Academy for Fine Arts (Bruno Gironcoli's sculpture class), is characterised by the mutual interrelationships between interior and exterior, private and public life or furniture and human beings.

Hans Schabus has conceived an installation for the Vienna Secession with the double title "The Face in the Wall. A Door is a Table is a Bed". It is spread over two exhibition spaces: the Ver Sacrum Room on the Ground Floor and the Graphic Cabinet on the First Floor. Wooden panelling mounted on the facade of the Secession will darken the windows and form a visual link between both spaces. It also indicates their respective positions, i.e. one above the other. Daylight enters through 24 small circular apertures and creates a diffuse atmosphere. The effect of intimacy and privacy in the interior spaces caused by the panelling is undermined by the doors (which would close each space on the inside) being laid on trestles in the middle of each room. The door becomes a table in the Ver Sacrum Room and a bed in the Graphic Cabinet. A stool invites the viewer to sit, so that he can use a microphone and hence to establish a relationship between himself and the installation.

Both installations will be accompanied by a brochure designed by Hans Schabus. This mirrors the 24 apertures of the wooden panelling with 12 pairs of eyes. A discussion between Hans Schabus and Jakob Kosta is devoted to the work shown in the Secession.


PUBLICATION

HANS SCHABUS 34 pages, 10 b/w illustrations authors: Hans Schabus/Jakob Kosta Secession 1996 ___________________ available in the shop

We would like to thank:
BUNDESMINISTERIUM FÜR WISSENSCHAFT, FORSCHUNG UND KUNST
WIEN KULTUR
FILMCASINO
HEINISCH

MARTIN WALDE     LARRY CLARK     HANS SCHABUS

EXHIBITION PROGRAM 1996

 
For further information and photographic material please contact:
 
Urte Schmitt-Ulms
Secession, Association of Visual Artists Vienna Secession
Friedrichstraße 12, 1010 Vienna
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