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31 March to 19 May 2001
Pole vaulting in the chapel, bicycling in the laundromat, sky diving in the elevator shaft - such seemingly surrealist combinations of spaces and unexpected uses were outlined by architect Bernard Tschumi as early as 1983. The Löwenbräu building in Zurich is a striking example of this tendency (which has meanwhile become a fashion) to assign new functions to existing urban structures. Pipilotti Rist, the Swiss video artist, has her first show at the Galerie Hauser & Wirth, inaugurating their new exhibition space on the ground floor of the former brewery building. next >>>
fig.: Pipilotti Rist Supersubjektiv (Super-Subjective) 2001 Still from videoinstalltiontape Courtesy the artist, Galerie Hauser & Wirth and Luhring Augustine, New York |
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