COVER OF THE CATALOGUE
Sunset consists of a monumental
facade made of 170 ceramic plates, an installation conceived by the Georgian
artist Andro Wekua for the large hall of Le Magasin in Grenoble. The other
exhibition spaces at Le Magasin host a group show titled I Love
the Horizon. Curated by Andro Wekua and Daniel Baumann, it presents
works by Rita Ackermann, Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili, Luis Buñuel,
Xavier de Maria y Campos, Trisha Donnelly, Jannis Jaschke, Mikheil Kalatozishvili,
Martin Kippenberger, Emil Michael Klein, Oliver Laric, Nick Mauss, Sergej
Paradjanov, Ewa Partum, Steven Parrino, Seth Price, Richard Prince, Yves
Saint-Laurent, Piotr Uklanski as well as texts by Anna Moschovakis, Anne
Sexton, Marina Tsvetaeva, Derek Walcott and Adam Zagajewski.
Although built around two clichés, these exhibitions are not exercises
in nostalgia, sentimentality, or romanticism. It is rather the cliché
itself that can reveal powerful structures and mechanisms of ambivalence.
If time, eternity, and beauty will forever keep as reasons for sunsets
and horizons, Sunset and I Love the Horizon are about introversion, knowledge,
and emancipation. In front of an artwork one turns inward, even if the
work is political. One gets lost (or bored), or starts to understand why
one got lost. In such cases, the artwork itself can vanish and makes space
for something else .
Sunset and horizon are our friends; they are, just as artworks, open stages
and great plays. We, the public, look far into the receding space and
throw into it our longings, concepts and, sometimes, applause—which
it swallows like a black hole.
