Exhibition
November 13, 2024 – April 18, 2025
Austrian Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation Mariahilfer Straße 1b / Top 1, 1060 Wien
Exhibition of the Austrian Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation
Curated by Gerd Zillner
The exhibition juxtaposes two houses that could not be more different. In his paintings, Jürgen Bauer reduces the idea of the house to a universal symbol: the pictogram of the house with a pitched roof, a square as the basic form and basis for the formula with which Bauer always uses his house in the same proportions. The minimalist compositions of his paintings and objects are linked to social norms and values, most recently under the impression of climate change, land consumption and soil sealing.
Jürgen Bauer’s large-format paintings of houses, executed in acrylic on canvas, are juxtaposed with a series of small-format drawings of the Endless House from 1959 from the estate of Friedrich Kiesler. The Endless House is a true icon of 20th century visionary architecture and an early reference point for biomorphic architecture. Endless, not infinite, meant for Kiesler that “all ends meet” in his house, with the walls, ceilings and floors merging into one another and creating the illusion of an endlessly flowing spatial continuum.
The title of the exhibition “TWO HOUSES” is an ironic allusion to a show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, in which the engineer-architect Richard Buckminster Fuller was juxtaposed with the sculptor-architect Friedrich Kiesler.
Credits Header:
Jürgen Bauer, House on Stilts, 2020, acrylic on canvas, Photo: Eva Kelety © Bildrecht, Wien 2022
