unitled (Marcel), 2016 (with Salvatore Viviano)
aluminum, steel
270 x 270 x 470 cm
installation views: Sala Terrena, Upper Belvedere, Vienna 2016
image credits: © Belvedere, Vienna

With untitled (Marcel) a readymade is made ready. In a playful linguistic and pragmatic game – with annotation –, parole and langue are intertwined. Christoph Meier and Salvatore Viviano unravel the role of the author, the relation to his object and the manner in which we perceive it in context. We know the sculpture this work references, we know the functional object it represents, but its scale, purpose and setting are altered once again. Their responsive approach serves here as a pretext to the understanding of how art history and its key works operate in an everyday yet museological environment. So let’s have a Christmas tree, a clothes rack, or untitled (Marcel). (Pieternel Vermoortel)