Moni K. Huber Moni K. Huber

OPENING
Thursday, 06.09.2007, 6.30 pm

WELCOME
Dr. Hans Peter Haselsteiner

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Dr. Otmar Rychlik, Art historian

For her solo exhibition in the Strabag Artlounge, Moni K. Huber created the new series In der Baufirma. The Salzburg-born artist studied in Madrid, later at the University of Applied Arts and lives and works in Vienna. Numerous stays abroad and the related projects, series and self-presentations include topics such as landscape, architecture, tradition and modernity. Her most important series Pools, Lofts (Location of the Leisure Class, Catalog), Backstage Tourism, Panorama Wagrain or Lake Point View show in a critically ironic way the often absurd involvement and behavior of people in their environment. Many sequences were created on the basis of video stills or photos. For several years now, the artist has shown the interrelationship between the so-called “leisure class” and the modern architecture created for her, which integrates people like a sculpture frozen in their autonomy. In Moni K. Huber's pictures, architectural and constructive elements meet in chronological order with atmospheric sections of the landscape. The cinematic nature of the sequence of images, the fragmentation of a private moment spent in anonymity, are reflected in the situations presented. Looking at the pictures in the interplay of observing and being observed, perception and identity, leaving out what is unambiguous in the “observation space” make the works so memorable.
Barbara Baum, STRABAG Art Forum

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