09–11
2015
 
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Events 2015

19.09.–22.11.2015

AA Bronson

The Salzburger Kunstverein and Grazer Kunstverein were delighted to announce their collaboration with AA Bronson (1946, Vancouver, Canada) on two concurrent exhibitions. Bronson was artist and curator, subject and object, in this hybrid project. Both exhibitions featured his artwork, collaborations with younger artists, performances, and artworks by friends. A pioneer of collaborative and queer visual art practice, he is a founding (and the only surviving) member of General Idea (1969-94).

Eröffnung: Fr, 18 September 2015, 8 pm

AA Bronson’s Garden of Earthly Delights
featuring AA Bronson with Adrian Hermanides, Matthias Herrmann, Mark Jan Krayenhoff van de Leur, Gareth Long, Ebe Oke, Chrysanne Stathacos, and JX Williams.

AA Bronson’s Garden of Earthly Delights transformed the Main Hall of the Salzburger Kunstverein into an activated, queer tableaux of moving and still parts, presenting an arena of engagement, transgression and reflection. The exhibition was, in one regard, a queer adaptation of Hieronymus Bosch’s triptych of the same name (circa 1500), here aesthetically married with Japan’s famous Zen garden of Ryoan-ji (1499). Both the painted garden and the rock garden offer us a vision of the spiritual as a constructed universe. AA Bronson asked us to reconsider them in this exhibition, each alike a universe held within dramatized limits, like a gay bar or a drag club.

AA Bronson & Keith Boadwee. PLAID
The second component of the exhibition took place in the Kabinett: AA Bronson and Keith Boadwee have collaborated on an homage to the anus. They present a painting series titled PLAID, performative works created by squirting paint from their sphincters. The paintings are simultaneously a nod to and simulacrum of classic modernist serial painting and Actionism both; they posit the body, and especially—in Freudian terms—the anus, as the fount of creation. AA Bronson says: “The asshole IS the revolution.”


AA Bronson’s Sacre du Printemps
26 September – 29 November 2015

Grazer Kunstverein (as part of the steirischer herbst 2015)
Opening: Sa, 26 September, 12.30 pm
Featuring AA Bronson with Igshaan Adams, Ryan Brewer, Elijah Burgher, Nicolaus Chaffin, Michael Dudeck, K8 Hardy, Matthias Herrmann, Reima Hirvonen, Yeonjune Jung, Mark Jan Krayenhoff van de Leur, Chrysanne Stathacos, Scott Treleaven, JX Williams.

Media sponsor: Hyperallergic.com

With support from Esther Schipper, Berlin.

Rose Mandala kindly supported by Doll Kunstgärtnerei.

AA Bronson, born 1946 in Vancouver,
lives and works in Toronto and Berlin

Installation view “AA Bronson’s Garden of Earthly Delights,” 
Salzburger Kunstverein 2015

Installation view “AA Bronson’s Garden of Earthly Delights,”
Salzburger Kunstverein 2015
Photo: © Andrea Rossetti, courtesy Esther Schipper, Berlin

AA Bronson & Mark Jan Krayenhoff van de Leur, 
Folly (Lana's Boudoir), 2015



AA Bronson’s Garden of Earthly Delights
Featuring AA Bronson mit Adrian Hermanides, Matthias Herrmann, Mark Jan Krayenhoff van de Leur, Gareth Long, Ebe Oke, Chrysanne Stathacos und JX Williams (19.09.-22.11.2015)

AA Bronson’s Garden of Earthly Delights transforms the Main Hall of the Salzburger Kunstverein into an activated, queer tableaux of moving and still parts, presenting an arena of engagement, transgression and reflection.