Michael Zinganel, Home 1998. Photo: Wolfgang Thaler


Michael Zinganel, who was born in Bad Radkersburg (Austria) in 1960, has recently been devoting himself increasingly to participatory projects, which more and more reveal the artist in his role as a socially and politically engaged "architect". Michael Zinganel does not merely criticize modern planning methods from a theoretical standpoint, but also implements this criticism in the concrete social interventions of his most recent work.

Michael Zinganel's project flees the white cube of the art institution in an ironic investigation of the family home as a symbol for the longing for a deceptively idyllic life style and supposed bulwark of innocence and repression. This dream has remained a pie in the sky for the artist up to now at any rate - as an object for observation and a projection area for both the positive and negative connotations of various ideologies and life styles. His claim to be accepted as an artist by the art industry, however, draws him back once more to the art institution (namely, the Secession).


PUBLICATION

MICHAEL ZINGANEL 24 pages, 12 colored illustrations, 11 b/w illustrations author: Jörg Heiser Secession 1998, ISBN 3-901926-05-4 ___________________ available in the shop

HERBERT BRANDL  ROBERT LETTNER  MICHAEL ZINGANEL  MARC ADRIAN

EXHIBITION PROGRAM 1998

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