Moment.Monument

Sculpture today

"Moment.Monument", the book accompanying the exhibition of the same name at the Kunst Museum Winterthur, presents international positions of contemporary sculpture in the field of tension between permanence and transience. The main theme is thus the ambivalence between the traditional claim of the monument as a memorial on the one hand and the processual approaches in today's sculpture on the other. In contrast to avant-garde practice, artistic approaches no longer have to make a radical break with tradition, but may naturally and calmly refer to formal historical research. Dealing with older positions is as extensive as it is innovative. The recourse is deepened by process-orientated work approaches, new materials and the use of contemporary techniques. In addition, the artists expand the historical positions by charging the sometimes extremely self-referential formal inventions of the past with content or poetry. This results in a pleasurable citation of historical positions in order to redefine, as it were, the concept of the monument. Multi-layered strategies of narrative and memory are always at work, opening up the artworks to the world as monuments to a present that is as fleeting as it is fragile.

Artists:
Phyllida Barlow, Katinka Bock, Dora Budor, Isa Genzken, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Mona Hatoum, Bethan Huws, Alicja Kwade, Manfred Pernice, Magali Reus, Thomas Schütte, Gabriel Sierra, Roman Signer, Simon Starling, Danh Võ, Erwin Wurm

Exhibition:
Kunst Museum Winterthur, 8/5 - 15/8/2021