MEANWHILE, ELSEWHERE

SYLVAIN BAUMANN, LORENZA DIAZ, SYBELLA PERRY
curated by MAREIKE SPENDEL

May 31 to June 28 2015

Vernissage: Saturday, May 30, 6 pm

Special Event: Wednesday, June 17, 6 pm
Premiere of the Performance Pan-Pot, Paint-Pot by SYBELLA PERRY and a presentation of the publication to the exhibition with a text by AGNES HOFFMANN and MAREIKE SPENDEL
The Ausstellungsraumbar is open

Opening hours during Art|Basel
June, 15 to 21
1 pm to 9 pm

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The exhibition Meanwhile, elsewhere juxtaposes works by three artists who explore the perception and representation of landscapes. The term ‘landscape’ already presupposes aesthetic categories including the picturesque, the sublime, and the beautiful, and as a heterotopia takes the position of a counterpart to man-made architectures and urban landscapes. In Lorenza Diaz’ paintings landscape becomes a timeless and deserted dystopia. For Sybella Perry the starting point for her work is often the personal fascination with certain locations including English landscape gardens and peripherally located drive-in cinemas. While the primary subject of Sylvain Baumann’s installation is Modern and contemporary architecture, his work mirrors ideas around landscape and nature through the ideological conversion of architecture as men’s ‘natural habitat’, where unidentifiable tropical plants play their part symbolising conquered landscapes and domesticated nature.

Meanwhile, elsewhere is supported by: Fonds Werkraum Warteck pp, Jaqueline Spengler Stiftung, Hans und Renée Müller-Meylan Stiftung, Pro Helvetia - Schweizer Kulturstiftung, Migros Kulturprozent.

The exhibition is partner of videocitybs.ch.

Organised for the Ausstellungsraum Klingental by Sabrina Davatz and Jan Hostettler.

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