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LENTOS KUNSTMUSEUM LINZ, A
www.triennalelinz.at

Triennale Linz 1.0
Opening reception: 03 June, 2010
Exhibition 04 June 2010 - 26 September, 2010



Pirmin Blum
"Not I", "Man as inverted plant", "Black beauty"
2009
Three machine guns, black wig, three eggs, soil, tree, black plastic foil on walls and ceiling
Dimensions variable
Installation view: Lentos Museum, Linz, A
photo: Edwina Loreen Sasse

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Pirmin Blum’s art is equally at home in different media. As well as video, the artist, whose background is in painting and digital media, uses objects and spatial installations as his preferred means of artistic expression. Philosophical and psychoanalytical ideas serve Blum as points of reference in his largely conceptual approach. Performances enable him to make his three-dimensional, intuitive images even more accessible.

At TRIENNALE LINZ the artist is responsible for the Annex Room. Separate from the rest of the exhibition and draped in black plastic foil, this room is tantamount to a »negation of space« (Anne Katrin Feßler). This manipulated White Cube serves as the site for the presentation of two installations. »Not I« is a sculpture consisting of three machine-guns arranged to form a pyramid and topped by a wig and a couple of eggs. A nest destined to be destroyed in an imminent explosion? A threat to one’s native country? The installation »Man as an inverted plant« consists of one tree hanging from the ceiling upside-down with their roots pointing towards the ceiling. The tree symbolism here refers to humankind, who, according to Rudolf Steiner’s anthroposophical teachings, are to be considered as the opposite of plants due to the downward orientation of their sexual organs.

Text: Nina Kirsch


Triennale Linz

Linz continues with the impetus from the Capital of Culture year 2009 to present a compact selection of generations of artists significantly working in Austria today. Together, the State Gallery Linz, LENTOS Art Museum Linz, and the OK “Offenes Kulturhaus” Upper Austria show a representative cross-sectional time line through the current local art scene, positioning Linz as a center of Austrian contemporary art.

Three Institutions – Three Exhibitions – One Art Event

The result is three exhibitions, each of which works by itself – but it is first in their totality that they can do justice to the pluralism of what is currently happening in art and give it a broad space. With the TRIENNALE LINZ 1.0, Linz offers the cultural event of summer 2010. The unfamiliar, hardly yet publicized, expanded with what is already renowned together with what has been specially developed for this show, this results in a fascinating spectrum. Accompanied by projects and performances in public space, LENTOS, OK and the State Gallery artistically stir up the city of Linz in 2010.