manifesto of fragility – A World of Endless Promise
Markus Schinwald – Panorama, 2022
2024
Round wooden pavilion, painting, wooden sculptures, wall tapestries
Claude Martin, Facial moulds, plaster, Collection of the Musée des Hospices Civils de
Lyon
Maison Ferrandoux, Hand prostheses, steel, Collection of the Musée des Hospices Civils
de Lyon
Male bust, Portrait of a man, 2nd century AD, marble, Collection Lugdunum - Musée
et théâtres romains
Venue
-
Lyon
Born 1973 in Salzburg, Austria.
Lives and works in Vienna, Austria, and New York, USA.
“A prosthesis for an undefined case” is how Markus Schinwald describes his protean oeuvre, which blurs the boundaries between the strange and the familiar. Inspired by Giulio Camillo’s theatre of memory, the artist has made a piece of panoptic architecture for the Fagor Factories. Unlike the Italian humanists of the Renaissance, he does not seek to offer a representation of universal knowledge; rather, the artist has constructed a multi-layered artwork that blurs the borders between historical epochs and framings, challenging a conventional perception of images, bodies, and their respective histories through algorithmic methods such as morphing and crossfading. In this space, Schinwald has paired his own works with items borrowed from local institutions. Thus emerges an iconography permeated by violence and injury – a mutilated Roman bust, facial casts of wounded World War One veterans – which encounters singular sculptures and modified Baroque paintings, all surrounded by a wall tapestry that polarizes images of civilization and decay, illusion and destruction.
Commission for the 16th edition of the Biennale de Lyon
With the support of the Phileas Fund of Contemporary Art, the Federal Chancellery
of Austria, the Austrian Cultural Forum of Paris
With the kind collaboration of the Musée des Hospices Civils de Lyon, the Musée
Lugdunum - Musée et Théâtres Romains
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