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Lois Weinberger.


MUSEUM MODERNER KUNST STIFTUNG LUDWIG WIEN

At Documenta X,. Lois Weinberger's weeds thrived on curator Catherine David's "poetic/political" terrain, symbolically taking root among abandoned railroad railroad or railway, form of transportation most commonly consisting of steel rails, called tracks, on which freight cars, passenger cars, and other rolling stock are drawn by one locomotive or more.  tracks, unearthing issues of migration and cultural resistance. Since the '70s, Weinberger has aestheticized seeds and soil in an ambitious horticultural hor·ti·cul·ture  
n.
1. The science or art of cultivating fruits, vegetables, flowers, or ornamental plants.

2. The cultivation of a garden.
 project. Now, curator Rainer Fuchs gives the artist his first large museum show, in which a wide variety of work--installations, models, photographs, videos, a film, and one outdoor project--documents the fertility of Weinberger's experiments in vegetal vegetal /veg·e·tal/ (vej´e-t'l) vegetative (defs. 1, 2, and 3).

veg·e·tal
adj.
1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of plants.

2.
 metaphor. How Austria, his native turf, will sustain the cohabitation A living arrangement in which an unmarried couple lives together in a long-term relationship that resembles a marriage.

Couples cohabit, rather than marry, for a variety of reasons. They may want to test their compatibility before they commit to a legal union.
 of "domestic" and "foreign" strains remains to be seen. Mar. 10-Apr.24.
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Author:Scbneider, Caroline
Publication:Artforum International
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Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Jan 1, 2000
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