Gregor Schneider: Cellar.WIENER SECESSION For the last fifteen years, Gregor Schneider has been frantically "redoing" the interior of his little house in Rheydt Rheydt (rīt), city, North Rhine–Westphalia, W Germany. It forms a twin city with Mönchengladbach. Rheydt is an industrial center; its manufactures include cotton, silk, and velvet textiles as well as machine tools, electrical equipment, and printing supplies. It was first mentioned in 1180 but was not chartered until 1856., 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 Matthias, 1557–1619, Holy Roman emperor (1612–19), king of Bohemia (1611–17) and of Hungary (1608–18), son of Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II. He was appointed governor of Austria (1593) by his brother, Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II. He formed a close association there with the bishop of Vienna, Melchior Klesl, who later became his chief adviser. Herrmann, he's duplicating, stone for stone, what he calls "the last hole"--his cellar, 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 as a corpse in the cellar. Mar. 30-May 21. |
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