Agnes Fuchs, Robustesse et perfection

PROGRAM

Guided tour through the exhibition
March 15, 2018, 5 pm
With Agnes Fuchs, artist of the exhibition Robustesse et perfection; Hans Schönegger, general manager, Lakeside Park; Franz Thalmair, curator, Kunstraum Lakeside

*

EXHIBITION

Agnes Fuchs, Robustesse et perfection
Opening, March 15, 2018, 7 pm
Exhibition, March 16 – April 27, 2018

Opening hours
Tue 12–6 pm, Wed–Fri 10 am–1 pm
And by appointment

In her artistic practice, Agnes Fuchs appropriates a specific historical field and explores the after-images it is still producing today. Using painting, video, and installation, she reactivates on this symbolic level the scientific and technical tools that were responsible for the evolution of current digital technologies. For the exhibition she has conceived for Kunstraum Lakeside for example, titled Robustesse et perfection, Fuchs analyzes the cultural and historical implications of operating instructions, functional descriptions, and manuals for oscilloscopes, computers, power supply devices, and measurement apparatus from the late 1950s to the 1980s.

In Robustesse et perfection Fuchs explores the broader context of the objects she selects and re-examines their significance under the changed conditions of the 21st century. The targets of her investigation are frequently measuring devices used for system control or signal transmission. On view at Kunstraum Lakeside, for example, is a “Panoramic Display” from a test receiver and a “Servo Chart Recorder,” which records incoming impulses. These devices with their typical design elements are embedded in a context whose aesthetic Fuchs translates into painting, thus putting it up for discussion and subverting it through this change in media.