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Tolia Astakhishvili: Figure of the Child
The Georgian artist's first solo museum show uses the "figure of the child" to rethink first encounters with art, drawing in movement, touch and works by Picasso, Goldin and Paik.
Mais em Viena
Down in mumok's basement there's a life-sized bathroom with its shower and plumbing exposed, white bedding on the floor scattered with drawings, and air vents humming. Astakhishvili built it, as my emptiness, from excavated pipes, a bathtub, a shower tray and mirrors.
You enter through a red-lit corridor lined with tarpaulin, then follow passages of drywall and plastic that narrow and open into bigger rooms across two underground floors. Small wooden huts hold works by other artists, from Vito Acconci to Dieter Roth, and Picasso, Nan Goldin and Nam June Paik turn up along the way. The one bed says "You can sit and rest", facing six hours of Acconci in a lift with roosters.
Writing for e-flux, Chris McCormack found it "grounded in trying, once more, to make a home". Go before 18 October if you can: Level -2 closes then for the next show's setup, and Level -4 runs to 1 November. It's on the standard €18 ticket.
Não perca
my emptiness
Look for the life-sized bathroom with exposed shower and plumbing, extractor units stuffed with abandoned keepsakes, and white bedding on the floor covered in drawings.
Their own small gardens
Twenty boxy Hantarex monitors sit on the floor, playing tracking shots of the building's own infrastructure below.
The red-lit tunnel
A subway-like passage lined with tarpaulin under red light, which the e-flux critic read as a makeshift birth canal.
The huts
Small open-fronted wooden units each hold someone else's work, from Vito Acconci's Combination to pieces by Charlotte Posenenske, Dieter Roth and Heimo Zobernig.
Wild Thing
A large freestanding structure, made with James Richards, shows a projected video of a puppy lying on a flatbed scanner.
Ideal para
- Sozinho
- Moradores que já viram tudo
Evite se
You want art hung on white walls: the collection works here sit inside huts, corridors and makeshift rooms.
Com crianças
Under-19s get in free.
mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien: outras exposições
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iGeleiras em Desequilíbrio (Glaciers out of balance)
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Créditos das imagens
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- Tolia Astakhishvili: Figure of the Childmumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
- Herbert Boeckl – Hans Josephsohn: Arquétipos Figurativos (Herbert Boeckl – Hans Josephsohn: Figural Archetypes)Herbert Boeckl Nachlass, Vienna; Josephsohn Estate / Kesselhaus Josephsohn, St. Gallen
- Geleiras em Desequilíbrio (Glaciers out of balance)Jürgen Merz / NHM Wien
- Atenção, alta tensão! Acidentes elétricos – uma categoria à parte (Caution, high voltage! Electrical accidents – a class of their own)NHM Wien
- mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig WienAndrzej Otrębski / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Architekturzentrum Wien (Az W)Spock1801 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Kunsthalle WienStephan Wyckoff / PresseKunsthalleWien, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Leopold MuseumPeter Gugerell / Wikimedia Commons, CC0
- Natural History Museum Vienna (Naturhistorisches Museum Wien)Stb1er (Dario Premm), Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0