Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck
November 23 2002 - January 12 2003
photography: Rainer Iglar, Salzburg
The exhibition at the Galerie im Taxispalais will mainly show projects from the past ten years which can be linked to individual works from the seventies and eighties. A central piece is the Gartenarchiv "Gebiet 1988 - 1999" (Garden Archives "Area 1988-1999"), a documentation (624 slides) on the garden that Weinberger developed for the periphery of Vienna. It is a field research project spanning a period of eleven years. His focus is not on botany but rather on activating peripheral zones as preserves of events which the artist enables the viewer to experience through his artistic interventions. Furthermore, the works Weinberger produced for his exhibition at the Freud Museum, London will be shown, including the video "Turning Into Night", as well as other works that he created for the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin during his stay in Ireland which was made possible by a grant. In the hall on the lower level a number of drawings, project sketches, notes, photographs, texts, objects, found objects, models etc. have been brought together, which also document realized and non-realized projects in public space. In the public space of Innsbruck, at the corner of Maria-Theresien-Straße/Meranerstraße Weinberger's Busstation will stand for the duration of the exhibition, here the garden archive can be called up on a computer screen. The "Wartehaus" communicates to the outside world by means of writing. Weinberger used notions that can stand for themselves and are precisely defined. They also constitute the relational units of a complex general situation, around which the associations of the reader can freely emerge.
November 23 2002 - January 12 2003
photography: Rainer Iglar, Salzburg
The exhibition at the Galerie im Taxispalais will mainly show projects from the past ten years which can be linked to individual works from the seventies and eighties. A central piece is the Gartenarchiv "Gebiet 1988 - 1999" (Garden Archives "Area 1988-1999"), a documentation (624 slides) on the garden that Weinberger developed for the periphery of Vienna. It is a field research project spanning a period of eleven years. His focus is not on botany but rather on activating peripheral zones as preserves of events which the artist enables the viewer to experience through his artistic interventions. Furthermore, the works Weinberger produced for his exhibition at the Freud Museum, London will be shown, including the video "Turning Into Night", as well as other works that he created for the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin during his stay in Ireland which was made possible by a grant. In the hall on the lower level a number of drawings, project sketches, notes, photographs, texts, objects, found objects, models etc. have been brought together, which also document realized and non-realized projects in public space. In the public space of Innsbruck, at the corner of Maria-Theresien-Straße/Meranerstraße Weinberger's Busstation will stand for the duration of the exhibition, here the garden archive can be called up on a computer screen. The "Wartehaus" communicates to the outside world by means of writing. Weinberger used notions that can stand for themselves and are precisely defined. They also constitute the relational units of a complex general situation, around which the associations of the reader can freely emerge.
drawings, project sketches, notes, photographs, texts, objects, found objects, models
Paths und Places, 2002 , animal structure, wallpainting
Garden, 2002, (Irland) painted wood, loam, metal, text: Martin Heidegger, 122 x 77 x 42 cm
"THE SPARING ITSELF CONSISTS NOT ONLY IN THE FACT THAT WE DO NOT HARM THE ONES WHOM WE SPARE.
REAL SPARING IS SOMETHING POSITIVE AND TAKES PLACE WHEN WE LEAVE SOMETHING BEFOREHAND IN ITS OWN NATURE,
WHEN WE RETURN IT SPECIFICALLY TO ITS BEING, WHEN WE FREE IT IN REAL SENSE OF THE WORD INTO A PRESERVE OF PEACE."
Garden, 1999 / 2000, loam, algae, moos, plastic tub, aluminum box, 100 x 70 x 50 cm
Untitled 2002, (Irland),foam rubber, 180 x 90 x 11 cm
Save Light, 1994/99, aluminum plate, 50 x 60 cm, lamp, multiple, ed.5
Pannonian Grass, 2002, growth lamps
Garten Eden, 2000, theatre plan Antwerp, marker and tarpaulin lacquer on plastic net, 402 x 324 cm, concrete wall outside
Busstation, 2000
galvanized steel sheet, text, 250 x 1.40 x 1.40 m,
Inside: monitor: Garden archive "Gebiet 1988-1999", 624 slides on 6 Photo-CDs, fictitious city plan
In the public space of Innsbruck, at the corner of Maria-Theresien-Straße/Meranerstraße
Weinberger's Busstation will stand for the duration of the exhibition, here the garden archive can be called up on a computer screen. The "Wartehaus" communicates to the outside world by means of writing. Weinberger used notions that can stand for themselves and are precisely defined. They also constitute the relational units of a complex general situation, around which the associations of the reader can freely emerge.
Inside: monitor: Garden archive "Gebiet 1988-1999", 624 slides on 6 Photo-CDs, fictitious city plan
In the public space of Innsbruck, at the corner of Maria-Theresien-Straße/Meranerstraße
Weinberger's Busstation will stand for the duration of the exhibition, here the garden archive can be called up on a computer screen. The "Wartehaus" communicates to the outside world by means of writing. Weinberger used notions that can stand for themselves and are precisely defined. They also constitute the relational units of a complex general situation, around which the associations of the reader can freely emerge.
Garden archive Area, 1988 - 1999
624 slides in plexiglass boxes, lightbox
collection: Österreichische Galerie Belvedere
photography: Rainer Iglar, Salzburg
"[...] Weinberger has become an expert botanist and he has at his disposal an archive of more than a thousand slides showing ruderals. However, as a teaching aid his archive is useless since there are no labels nor any other system that might be employed for didactic purposes. Again he seems to offer role models, without allowing himself to be limited to any single one of them. [...] The Gebiet belongs to the past. In 1999 Weinberger sold his plot and watched the bulldozers roll across the Gebiet. Of the reservoir which the garden once provided for his work, only his archives of images and seeds remain."
text: Stella Rollig, The Capacity of Difference, from: Lois Weinberger, MMKSL, 2000: S. 210
624 slides in plexiglass boxes, lightbox
collection: Österreichische Galerie Belvedere
photography: Rainer Iglar, Salzburg
"[...] Weinberger has become an expert botanist and he has at his disposal an archive of more than a thousand slides showing ruderals. However, as a teaching aid his archive is useless since there are no labels nor any other system that might be employed for didactic purposes. Again he seems to offer role models, without allowing himself to be limited to any single one of them. [...] The Gebiet belongs to the past. In 1999 Weinberger sold his plot and watched the bulldozers roll across the Gebiet. Of the reservoir which the garden once provided for his work, only his archives of images and seeds remain."
text: Stella Rollig, The Capacity of Difference, from: Lois Weinberger, MMKSL, 2000: S. 210