Like A geographical cross-section, Timekeeper uncovers and shows the successive layers left behind by previous actions (wall paintings) on the walls of the Wiener Secession. Just as the rings of a tree tell its history. Timekeeper is a caption that tells the story of its location. It allows the work of different artists to coexist. A kind of retrospective and group exhibition. 2003
Image and text from Pierre Huyghe, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, 2004.
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I love the piece you are showing above, it's such a beautiful interevntion, but also has quite dark connatations (I like the way you're talking about it as a group exhibition of the different people who shared the same physical space at different time, very beautiful), for that beauty to be revealed material was destroyed. ???
Its a beautiful thing isnt it!? I have to admit that I hadn't thought of it as a sad thing, but now I see exactly what you mean. When we were in Croatia, and getting the gallery ready we had to remove an image from the wall: it was the image, in grey flat acrilic, of a chair and table from the show of Tina, Bens wife. When we started to scrape back the wall as the emulsion wasn't covering it, we uncovered writing from a previous show, but only partially, so it appeared almost ghostly; the echo of an old exhibition. It was intruiging but sad to remove Tinas image, it seemed a little strange, especially as her work focused of possible histories of past occupants of the space. We have also added to the layers of the space - John made a mind map on wall, a documentation of his process, and the process of the trip and exchange
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