Gregor Schneider: Cellar.WIENER SECESSION secession, in art secession, in art, any of several associations of progressive artists, especially those in Munich, Berlin, and Vienna, who withdrew from the established academic societies or exhibitions. For the last fifteen years, Gregor Schneider has been frantically "redoing" the interior of his little house in Rheydt, not far from Dusseldorf. Occasionally he rips out a few rooms and sends them off to a museum. For this show in Vienna, organized by Secession president Matthias Herrmann, he's duplicating, stone for stone, what he calls "the last hole"--his cellar cellar Portion of a building beneath ground level, used for utilitarian and storage purposes. It is often called a basement, especially when constructed as part of a foundation. A cellar used for food storage (e.g. , here a grotto-like cave. As always, the thirty-year-old artist affords a glimpse into his home--a structure ordinary enough from the outside, but filled with fantastical corridors and uncanny spaces--and offers a view onto everyday life as unsettling un·set·tle v. un·set·tled, un·set·tling, un·set·tles v.tr. 1. To displace from a settled condition; disrupt. 2. To make uneasy; disturb. v.intr. as a corpse The physical remains of an expired human being prior to complete decomposition. Property and Possession Rights In the ordinary use of the term, a property right does not exist in a corpse. in the cellar. Mar. 30-May 21. |
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