iVienna Secession (Secession)Innere Stadt
Polish artist Iza Tarasewicz builds large modular installations from salvaged materials, drawing on philosophy, quantum physics and chaos theory.
Preview: written before the show opened
Reviewing Tarasewicz's 2022 show at Tramway in Glasgow, The Scotsman's Susan Mansfield found sculptures built from obsolete farm machinery: four-fingered metal claws, and turkey-sized tripods clustered by a door "like poultry waiting to be fed". She gave it four stars and praised its "impressive unity", though past a certain point she found it repetitive.
Moving Cause, her Secession show, returns to retro machines that today's economy writes off as technological scrap, and adds spacecraft. The Secession promises a playful, humorous model of another reality in which the machines build their own chaotic community. Don't expect a rerun of Glasgow: her pieces are modular, rearranged for every venue, in materials from rusted steel to lingzhi mushrooms. Vienna's broken machines go to the Mistplatz; these ones got the Secession.
Her gallery, 66p, says she is the first Polish artist with a solo project here. It opens on 4 December. Admission is €13 (students under 26 €7.50, under-12s free) and includes the Beethoven Frieze.
Scrapped retro machines and spacecraft, rebuilt as modular installations that change shape at every venue, in materials from rusted steel to lingzhi mushrooms. Reviewing her Glasgow show, The Scotsman saw tripods clustered "like poultry waiting to be fed".
Children under 12 get in free.