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Klaus Pinter

"Chrysalide" and "Au premier matin ?"

published at 22/11/2018
Au premier matin ?, installation de Klaus Pinter pour le Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, 2013 © Éric Sander

A unique and inspired artist, Klaus Pinter is still exploring the potential of inflatable structures with unwavering passion – ever since 1967. Polyphonic compositions made up of antagonistic materials and ornamental motifs, they illustrate the artist’s desire to steer clear of attraction through fluidity, plasticity and buoyancy and to free himself from flat surfaces in favour of the surrounding architecture. His approach is as original as his installations which, for forty years, have been floating unfettered by fashion. These “pneumatic” installations, or “ephemerides of modernity” as Yves Kobry refers to them, must be understood in the etymological sense, in other words, they are endowed with the breath of life, a soul, not simply because they are transformed by a thought, but because they fly over and sometimes collide with history and culture. Combining the precision and meticulousness of an architect with a poet’s imagination, the work of Klaus Pinter is at once disconcerting and fascinating.

In Chaumont-sur-Loire, Pinter is presenting an extraordinary ring set with golden magnolias in the Stables Canopy and installing a sublime levitating structure in the Riding School. Poetry awaits with these strange and poetic forms positioned by goodness knows which sylvan deity?

Biographical notes

Klaus PINTER
AUSTRIA
 
 
Born in 1940 in Schärding am Inn, Klaus Pinter is an Austrian sculptor. After graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, he made his debut as a professional artist in the early 1960s at the Fuchs Gallery in Vienna. He lived in New York for seven years, spent a few years in Belgrade, Bonn and Paris, and he now lives in Vienna and île d’Oléron off the west coast of France. 
 
By founding the Haus-Rucker-Co group in Vienna in 1967, he struck out from Fine Art and became a forerunner in the installation and locating of a work of art in a given context. In the 1970s, he played a part in forging the reputation of the Austrian radical scene.
Involved in a scathing critique of the notion of progress, industrialisation and its consequences on the environment, Pinter concentrates his research with Haus-Rucker on experimenting with a new relationship with the body. As someone who has always turned to the architecture of historical sites or museums for inspiration, the artist invites us to ponder the notion of space, symbol and tradition.
 
In 2012, he was given an important retrospective in Vienna.

COLLECTIONS

Centre Georges Pompidou, France
L'Albertina, Vienna, Austria
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Complete Biography

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2013
Variations: À la belle rocaille, Opéra, Musiktheater Linz, Austria
 
2011
Le Cocon une sculpture flottante, chapelle des Jésuites, Cambrai, France
 
2009
Vive la nature! Dessins nouvelles, Heike Curtze Gallery, Vienna, Austria
 
2008
Corps en Rotation, Selected works 2005–2007, Centro di arti Al Blu di Prussia, Naples, Italy
 
2007
Corps en Rotation, Selected works 2005–2007, Galerie Pièce Unique, Paris, France
Haus-Rucker-Co Live again. Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria
 
2006
La conquête de l’air, Heike Curtze Gallery, Vienna, Austria
 
2005
Collision Berlin-Mitte, Parochialkirche, Erster Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
Collision au goût baroque, Heike Curtze Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Architekturfragmente, Charité, Robert Koch Hörsaal, Berlin, Germany
 
2004
Neue Malerei – Wandobjekte und Montagen zu ephemeren Großstadtskulpturen, Heike Curtze Gallery, Vienna, Austria
 
2003
Neue Malerei – Wandobjekte und Montagen zu ephemeren Großstadtskulpturen, Françoise Heitsch Gallery, Munich, Germany
 
2002
Rebonds, Centre des Monuments Nationaux, Paris, France
 
2000
Wiener Mischung. Installation mit unbekannten Objekten aus dem Depot des Historischen Museums der Stadt Wien, Hermesvilla, Vienna, Austria
 
1999
Tätowierte Göttin, eine Installation im Theseustempel, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria
Paravents, Heike Curtze Gallery, Vienna, Austria
 
1998
Tätowierte Götter, Installation in der Abgusssammlung des Instituts für Klassische Archäologie, Universität Salzburg, Alte Residenz, Salzburg, Austria
 
1997
Palimpsest, Akademisches Kunstmuseum der Universität Bonn mit Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany
Hohenthal und Bergen Gallery, Munich, Cologne, Germany
 
1995
Das Petersburg Projekt, Akademie der Wissenschaften Russlands, Navicula Artis, St. Petersburg, Russia
Heike Curtze Gallery, Vienna, Austria
 
1993
Mengsel, Galerie im Stifterhaus, Linz, Austria
Galerie am Stein, Schärding, Austria
Margine Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
Heitsch Gallery, Munich, Germany
Becker Gallery, Cologne, Germany
 
1991
Becker Gallery, Cologne, Germany
Haus Geiselhart Gallery, Reutlingen, Germany
Konglomerate, Galerie Lang und Echoraum, Vienna, Austria
 
1990
Margine Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
 
1989
AR/GE Kunst, Galerie Museum, Bozen, Italy
Thoman Gallery, Innsbruck, Austria
The Cairo Project, National Center of Fine Arts, Cairo, Egypt
 
1988
Das große ZER, Niederösterreichisches Landesmuseum – Minoritenkirche Krems, Austria
Lang Gallery, Vienna, Austria
Künstlerhaus, Klagenfurt, Austria
Natur, Kunstverein Horn, Horn, Austria
 
1987
Das große ZER, Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum, Linz, Austria
 
1986
N 48° 53‘ 46‘‘ E 02° 23‘ 18‘‘, Cité des Sciences et des Technologies, La Villette, Paris, France
 
1985
Neue Arbeiten, Museum moderner Kunst – Palais Ferstel, Vienna, Austria
 
1983
Stratigraphische Objekte, Lang Gallery, Vienna, Austria
 
1982
Palais Clam Gallas, Vienna, Austria
 
1977
Archéologie de la ville, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
 
1973
Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
 
1972
Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany
 
1971
Cover, Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany
Eatable Architecture, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
Gallery of Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, USA
 
1970
Live, Museum des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts, Vienna, Austria
Live, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, USA
Live, State University, Buffalo, USA
 
1969
Zwirner Gallery, Cologne, Germany
 
1962
Fuchs Gallery, Vienna, Austria

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2007
Between 1969–73, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
Nouvelle présenation des collections du musée national, Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France
Tomorrow Now – When design meets science fiction, Mudam / Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxemburg
 
2006
Le mouvement des images, Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France
Ein Passagenwerk, Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria
 
2005
Bing Bang. Destruction et création dans l’art du 20ème siècle, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Summer of Love. Art of the Psychedelic Era, Tate Liverpool, United Kingdom; Kunsthalle Schirn, Francfort, Germany
 
2004
The Austrian Phenomenon, Architekturzentrum, Vienna, Austria
 
2002
Arquitectura radical, CAAM / Centro Atlantico de Arte moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain; Museo de Arte contemporaneo, Seville, Spain
 
2001
Les années pop, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Arquitectura radical, MUVIM / Museo Valenciano de la Ilustración y la Modernidad, Valencia, Spain
Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne, France
 
2000
Radical Architecture, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Cologne, Germany
Den Fuß in der Tür, Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria
 
1999
25 Years Heike Curtze Gallery, Vienna, Austria
Pneumatique et Politique. L’imaginaire gonflable de 1968, Institut français d’architecture, Paris, France
The Inflatable Movement. Pneumatic and Protest 1968, Royal Institute of British Architects, London, United Kingdom
 
1998
The Inflatable Movement. Pneumatic and Protest 1968, The Architectual League, New York, USA
Museum auf Abruf – Der ironische Blick, Sammlung der Stadt Wien, Vienna, Austria
Des Eisbergs Spitze, Kunsthalle Wien im Museumsquartier, Vienna, Austria
 
1997
Artists for Nature, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany
 
1996
Schwere-Los, Oberösterreichisches Landes-Museum, Linz, Austria
Museum Ludwig, Budapest, Hungary
Kunst aus Österreich, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany
Der Rhein, Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn, Germany
Museum Commanderie van Sint Jan, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Die Sechziger Jahre – Als alles möglich wurde, Schloss Herberstein/Steiermark, Austria
 
1995
Wasser und Wein, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems an der Donau, Austria
 
1993
Haus-Rucker-Co Retrospektive, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
 
1990
Österreichische Skulptur, Secession, Vienna, Austria
 
1989
Wien – Vienna 1960–90, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Bozen, Italy; Palazzo della Permanente, Milan, Italy
 
1988
Modern Dreams, The Institute of Contemporary Art, The Clocktower Gallery, New York, USA
 
1975
Oberösterreichische Avantgarde, Linz, Austria
 
1974
Österreichische Avantgarde, Innsbruck, Austria; Basel, Switzerland; Karlsruhe, Germany
 
1972
Documenta 5, Kassel, Germany
 
1971
Recent Acquisition Show, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
 
1970
Between, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
 
1968
Neue Objekte, Museum des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts, Vienna, Austria
Plastic as Plastic, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, USA

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Klaus Pinter
Chrysalide, installation de Klaus Pinter pour le Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, 2013 © Éric Sander
Chrysalide, installation de Klaus Pinter pour le Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, 2013 © DR
Au premier matin ?, installation de Klaus Pinter pour le Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, 2013 © Éric Sander
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