Exhibition
November 13, 2024 – February 28, 2025
Österreichische Friedrich und Lillian Kiesler Privatstiftung
Mariahilfer Straße 1b / Top 1, 1060 Wien
Exhibition by the Austrian Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation
Curated by Gerd Zillner
Opening
Tuesday, November 12, 2024, 6 p.m.
in the course of Vienna Art Week
At the opening, Jürgen Bauer presented his youngest publication “Jürgen Bauer. House Repetition” (published in 2024, VMFK).
The exhibition contrasts 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 shape with a triangle above as the roof, formed from the same geometric figures over and over again.
Jürgen Bauer’s large-format paintings of houses, executed in acrylic on canvas, are contrasted with a series of small-format drawings of the Endless House of 1959 from Friedrich Kiesler’s estate.
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 sculptor-architect Frederick Kiesler was compared to the engineer-architect Richard Buckminster Fuller.
Credits Header:
Jürgen Bauer, House on Stilts, 2020, acrylic on canvas, Photo: Eva Kelety © Bildrecht, Vienna 2022
