Engaging in a dialogue with Steven Parrino. Nihilism Is Love, the starting point of this collection display is the painting substrate and its three-dimensional or metaphorical extension.

Painting is founded on concrete materials: paint, canvas and stretcher. Since the 1980s, the exponents of Radical Painting saw these basic components of painting as a return to the essence of their medium. Following on from this tradition, Steven Parrino used physical manipulations to force open this reduction to two-dimensionality. The brute force of his deformed painting substrates is similar to that of a punk concert. This reference to subculture is no coincidence but rather reflects the zeitgeist of the New York underground.

The title of this collection display is borrowed from the work of New York painter Polly Apfelbaum. Her work on show here consists of nine cardboard tubes and lengths of fabric rolled up on them. Her "canvases" are made on the basis of a selection from an industrial colour chart and the combinations it allows. Resembling papyrus scrolls or bones laid out at an archaeological site, her painting rests object-like in the three-dimensional setting. Replete with associations, she echoes tendencies and methods from the history of post-war painting. She plays with the ascription of material and craft and with the hidden content of the up to eighteen-metre-long lengths of fabric.

Polly Apfelbaum's Bones appears in a dialogue-based presentation together with works by Fabian Marcaccio, Art & Language, Pamela Rosenkranz and Joseph Marioni.

Admission to this presentation is free of charge.

 

More pictures to this exhibition

  • Bones
    Ausstellungsansicht, photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography, Zurich
  • Bones
    Exhibition view, photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography, Zurich
  • Bones
    Exhibition view, photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography, Zurich
  • Bones
    Polly Apfelbaum, Bones, 2000, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography, Zurich
  • Bones
    Pamela Rosenkranz, Awesome Power (Red and Blue), 2014, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography, Zurich