Robert Adrian X in Wien

[Claudia Westermann]

http://www.kunsthallewien.at/english/adrianx.html

KUNSTHALLE wien, New Building
Museumsplatz 1, A- 1070 Vienna,
daily from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m


Robert Adrian X

7 December, 2001 – 10 February 2002, Hall 2


"Collaging is a non-linear process. We build something new every day 
without gaining anything new. It’s a new way of thinking that we have 
learned.” Robert Adrian X made this way of thinking his manner of 
practicing art. The artist, born 1935 in Toronto, Canada, who has been 
living in Vienna since 1972, reassembles the most diverse cultural symbols 
in his work, articulating meanings between the lines which he thus makes 
stand for themselves.

"It’s all about this fuzzy territory between different media, it’s about 
the vanishing of demarcating definitions.” Quotes from classical modernity, 
advertising, and media technology or arms-industry artifacts are placed in 
new, often flowing-spatial contexts, with playful, ambiguous, and sometimes 
also menacing effects.

The Kunsthalle Wien will be showing the artist’s first comprehensive 
retrospective in Europe.
Robert Adrian X’s diverse work ranges from analytical painting in the 
1970s, conceptual photography, small sculptures and model construction to 
light and sound installations and telecommunications projects in the public 
and media spheres.


bob's homepage:
http://www.t0.or.at/~radrian/