out‾of the blue, Die Grube / The Pit [ Art and Architecture Out There ]
Exhibition at the gallery Raumburgenland Contemporary,Eisenstadt, Austria November 5, 2021 – May 20, 2022
Occurring in a way that is sudden and unexpected, in a way that seems not to be connected with anything that happened before: Would you call such a process “out_of the blue?”
This exhibition does not answer the burning questions of our time, nor does it take a stand on today’s dramatic dislocations. How can we confront climate change, the increasing division of society, the gap between rich and poor? Nevertheless, it is perhaps precisely “out_of the blue” that can provide inspiration from outside a mainstream bent on the cooptation of practically everything; that can steer our attention to our direct perception, reinforcing what we sense and feel. Capturing and charging the experiences of the moment is possibly the most important learning process that I’ve been privileged to undergo in my engagement with this extraordinary piece of land called “The Pit”, this site at the beginning of the Eurasian Steppe, at the interface between two world cultures. We cannot allow ourselves to ignore the fascinating quality and power of this region’s vernacular architecture—and even so, we must not hesitate to guide art and architecture into a new relationship, to take on utopia as the imagination of a new world.
This, and the conviction that any development bereft of an aspiration to “aesthetic intelligence” is questionable, has been and remains the intention that I associate with this land art project, this “art and architecture out there.” – Peter Noever
Plötzliches und Unerwartetes, das nicht mit vorangegangenen Ereignissen zusammenzuhängen scheint: Würden Sie einen solchen Vorgang als "out_of the blue?" bezeichnen?
Die Ausstellung gibt weder Antworten auf die brennenden Fragen unserer Zeit, noch nimmt sie Stellung zu den gegenwärtigen dramatischen Verwerfungen. Wie können wir dem Klimawandel, der zunehmenden Spaltung der Gesellschaft, der Kluft zwischen Arm und Reich begegnen? Vielleicht kann aber gerade "out_of the blue" dazu inspirieren, abseits eines nahezu alles vereinnahmenden main-streams die Aufmerksamkeit auf unsere direkte Wahrnehmung, dem Empfundenen, dem Gefühlten zu stärken. Die Erfahrungen des Augenblicks zu imprägnieren ist möglicherweise die wichtigste Erkenntnis die ich aus der Auseinandersetzung mit diesem außergewöhnlichen Stück Land „Die Grube" am Beginn der eurasischen Steppe, an der Schnittstelle zwischen zwei Weltkulturen, gewonnen habe. Der Bewunderung und der Kraft vernakulärer Baukunst dieser Region dürfen wir uns nicht entziehen und dennoch sollten wir nicht zögern Kunst und Architektur in ein neues Verhältnis zu bringen, die Utopie als Vorstellung einer neuen Welt in Angriff zu nehmen. Dies und die Überzeugung, daß jegliche Art von Entwicklung ohne den Anspruch auf "ästhetische Intelligenz" fragwürdig ist - war und ist die Intention die ich mit diesem Land-Art Projekt „Art and Architecture Out There“ verbinde. - Peter Noever
The Exhibition
In the Architekturgalerie RAUMBURGENLAND contemporary, in the centre of Eisenstadt, models, objects, plans, drawings and photos created especially for this occasion will be presented from November 5th, 2021 to May 20th, 2022. The Pit is the centerpiece of the exhibition and the publication of the same name out‾of the blue – Art + Architecture Out There.
The book out‾of the blue – Art + Architecture Out There, published by Schlebrügge.Editor Publishing House, provides the first opportunity to discover Peter Noever's extensive oeuvre in Breitenbrunn.
The exhibition in the Architekturgalerie RAUMBURGENLAND contemporary, which is taking place within the framework of 100 Jahre Burgenland (100 Years of Burgenland), and the current publication simultaneously provide an impulse for an intensive examination of art, architecture and landscape in this region.
"out‾of the blue", Exhibition opening, November 4, 2021, Architektur Raumburgenland, Eisenstadt, Austria
“Peter Noever has made not simply a site, an armature for spectatorship, but has crafted a place. Here’s the difference: Noever’s work tests not the edge of sculpture but the edge of architecture. The arts of habitation are not excluded but attenuated, made to dance a languorous yet electric tango of life floated to ritual.”
— Michael Sorkin architect, author and educator, New York
East of L.A.
Perhaps Dennis Hopper wouldn’t have been able to remember it anymore, but it would have been an easy ride on the Toilet with Concrete Plateau just above The Pit in Breitenbrunn. And perhaps, thus seated, he would have taken a photo of the large cast occupying Walter Pichler’s Sitting Pits— of all those who sat there, planning the future. And would’ve then, orienting himself on the familiar Airstream trailer and flanked by the white wings, headed down the steps—into The Pit, into the old Wine Cellar, in order to drink a simple eighth of a liter from the new glass and then, led by the tunnel, to arrive at the Cube, from whose roof he would have seen Rudolf M. Schindler’s slab, as fragmentary as it was broadly foundational, and the cubes for intense sitting, and—the lake at his back—the quarry’s grounds and walls: out of the blue, into the whatever. At some point, the director’s cut will get worked on—but until that time, filming will continue, various tables will be occupied, provisional penalty kicks will be awarded, and toasts will waft up to heaven, which can only be approached by constantly questioning it anew.
— Markus Mittringer, 2021
Peter Noever, "out‾of the blue", Die Grube / The Pit
[ Art and Architecture Out There ]
The first opportunity to discover Peter Noever's
comprehensive oeuvre at the beginning of the eurasian steppe.Published
by Schlebrügge.Editor, Publishing House. € 24,00 [A]€ 23,30 [D] $ 26,99
[USA]
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