20.07.–10.09.2006
Exhibition

Lucas Horvath
Piranesi Lounge and Buzz-Buzz

Opening: July 19, 2006, 8 p.m.
The Klub – Part 6: July 19, 2006, 9 p.m.
Opening speach: Cosmin Costinas, author und curator, Bucharest/Vienna

The show by Lucas Horvath in the exhibition cabinet of the Salzburger Kunstverein consisted of a photo series from the long term project “Casa Modei ” dealing with architecture in Rumania between 1967 and 1973.

The work “Piranesi Lounge ” focuses on a photographic examination of the former party academy in Bucharest, which today houses the faculty of journalism. The maze-like structure of the building’s lobby reflects the ideological and aesthetic ambivalence of these years. In the large-formatted photographs, passers-by and figures in the strangely formed rooms (which are similar to archaeological ruins) highlight the human permanence in pedagogical and university structures in the process of the change of ideological signs.

“Buzz-Buzz,” the second part of the exhibition, provides acoustic insights into research of Horvath’s further projects all of which deal with ideology, its aesthetic role in architecture, film, paedology, and fine arts and respective biographies by protagonists in these areas. Informants cross-refer fragmentary stories from the end points of modernity at the end of the world. The maze like structure of these narrations reflect the personal attitude of the artist towards the role of things worth knowing in the field of art: information can not serve as a teaching means in the art exhibition (information kitsch). Nevertheless, as Orson Welles said “It’s all true.”