Monument for People on the Move
Hans Schabus at 17th Lyon Biennale
Hans Schabus heads the Department of Sculpture and Space
at Angewandte
Hans Schabus's sculptural and architectural installations are the result of
a highly personal connection with exhibition spaces and their context. He explores the relationship between his artworks and
the surrounding environments by using unexpected materials or making the most of unlikely circumstances. Through radical activities
like hollowing out, filling in, banding and cutting, Hans Schabus deconstructs a space and restructures it, so that visitors
have to re-adjust their bearings and the way they move around, gaining in the process a new way of perceiving the exhibition
site.
After researching the industrial history
of these former maintenance and repair workshops for freight trains, Hans Schabus created a spatial project for the Grandes
Locos that ties the various workshops together.
The large wooden structure Monument for People on the Move, the size
of a hull of an Airbus A321aircraft, rests on turtles, symbols of protection and longevity that contrast with the rapid movements
of the former workers and the trains on the tracks. Borrowing from a variety of artistic styles - from construction to the
Vienna Secession (the tortoises are casted from Robert Oerley creatures under the bowls in the doorway of the Secession Building
in Vienna) - Hans Schabus's work creates a dialogue with the space and with the public, who are invited to cross the installation
and interact.Courtesy of the artist's Creation for the 17th Lyon BiennaleIn collaboration with Phileas – The Austrian Office for Contemporary Art With the support of the Austrian
Ministry of Culture and the Austrian Cultural Forum Paris
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Monument for People on the Move, 2024
Hans
Schabus
Termine
Ausstellungsdauer
17. September 2024 - 05. Januar 2025
Lyon Biennale of Contemporary
Art, Quai Pierre-Sémart, Rue Gabriel-Péri, 69350 La Mulatière
