Lois Weinberger

• 04.05.–23.06.2001

The Raum Aktueller Kunst Martin Janda is showing work from Lois Weinberger from May 4 until June 23, 2001. This is the artist’s first one-man show in Vienna after his well-received exhibition at the 20er Haus of the Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, the first solo presentation of the artist’s work in Vienna.

Lois Weinberger makes in-between zones and peripheral areas his theme: neglected uncultivated spots in the city, everday objects, and wild plants are some examples of these. By fading out its surroundings, for a short moment a particular question is brought into focus; at the same time the borderline which lies between everyday use and total disappearance is also described. He opens the field by means of exploration, fragmentation and poetic displacement and in this way shifts the discussion from superficial criticism to a differentiated dialogue.
In his work Weinberger attributes equal importance to the results of scientific research, apocryphal narratives and folkloric tradition as possibilities for a comprehensive representation. It would contradict Lois Weinberger’s stance, however, to make the knowledge gained through this intensive activity such an issue that the greater context and the parallelism of the phenomena would become lost.

In his exhibition at the Raum aktueller Kunst Martin Janda, Weinberger shows a garden, project drafts, architectural models and the large-format oil crayon drawing Zeitfeld, its forms derived from maps of cities and altitude markings.
Terms have been entered into the drawing creating a mental and literary landscape and which in their distance or proximity to each other allow individual relationships to develop.