KALTMESSER

Irmgard Seefried, Opera singer, singing an aria from ‘Madame Butterfly’, Vienna Opera House, Austria

Al Razutis, Surrogate, 1974.

Lejaren A Hiller Snr

MARILYN WOOD

Urs Fischer, You, (2007) Here, Fischer dug a crater in the gallery, removing its concrete level. The architecture of the gallery is altered by cutting, disruption, and destructive transformations. “You” simultaneously attacks and fetishizes the attributes of galleries, the qualities that the critic Brian O’Doherty has described as “something of the sacredness of churches, the austerity of courtrooms, the mysteriousness of research laboratories, something that, together with stylish designs, makes them unique cultic places of the aesthetic” The violence of Urs Fischer against the architecture destined to the sacral rite of art recalls the lifelong work of our beloved Chris Burden. Reference here

Dieter Appelt, Ich will mich nicht über die Bäume erheben (I don’t want to elevate myself above the trees), 1977