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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



Lazar Lyutakov
Paprika roasters
2006
Electrical devices for roasting paprikas, two sorts of paprika
Variable sizes

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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.

Paprika roasters

Lazar Lyutakov appropriates ‘cultural readymades’ from a variety of different cultural contexts for his sculptural work. His best known and possibly most provocative work is his presentation of his grandmothers (Bulgarian) Pepper-Cooker as a sculptural readymade, isolated on a white pedestal the ad hock object looks more like an historical artifact rather than a modern kitchen appliance. This work is the most indicative because of its subtleties as a readymade by appropriating the cultural context of an object without destroying its history.

Michael Hall