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Stables Canopy

C. Klaus Pinter

"En plein midi"

published at 12/02/2018
En plein midi, installation de Klaus Pinter au Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, 2018 - © Éric Sander
In 1967, Haus-Rucker-Co, of which Klaus Pinter was one of the three founders, suspended from a window of a block of flats in Vienna a sphere altering the vision that its residents had of their city and the world to come. This symbolised breaking away, the Secession for Haus-Rucker-Co.
 
The spheres that the artist has created over time have continued to shake up the usual way of seeing things, forcing beholders to probe history and architecture. At the Pantheon in 2002, “the spheres show much more of what is hidden, and indirectly unveil the luminous centre of traditional architecture… Thanks to his spheres, Pinter restores the historical link that has been lost between the beholder and the sky, by deliberately destroying it and leaving it open to reflection in this way,” writes Thomas Zaunschirm.
 
A symbol of the senses heightened, ubiquity, imaginary potential, hope, the sphere is just as capable of enhancing the idealistic tradition alluded to by Plato as the metaphor of aesthetic thought described by Jacques Derrida in La vérité en peinture (Truth in painting).
 
In the Stables Canopy of Château de Chaumont-sur-Loire, the sphere set up by Klaus Pinter proudly shows itself to admirers, illuminated by its thousands of golden flowers set a-sparkle by the light and the changing sky. Unlike those that have come before, whether here or elsewhere, this sphere will sometimes roll on the flagstones of the courtyard, adaptable, fully party to its era.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

Klaus PINTER
AUSTRIA
 
 
Born in 1940 in Schärding (Austria), Klaus Pinter was one of the founding members of Haus-Rucker-Co (Vienna, Düsseldorf) and Haus-Rucker-Inc (NYC). After seven years in New York, a few years in Belgrade and then stints in Bonn and Paris, Klaus Pinter now lives and works on Ile d’Oléron and in Vienna. By founding the Haus-Rucker-Co Group in 1967 in Vienna, he set himself apart from the Fine Arts, striking out as a forerunner of installation, setting a showpiece within a given context. In the 1970s he was a leading light on the radical Austrian art scene.
Casting a severely critical eye over the notion of progress and industrialisation and their consequences on the environment, Pinter’s research, with Haus-Rucker, bears on experiments of a new relationship with the body. Through his unwavering focus on the architecture of historical venues, museums or sites, the artist prompts us to give thought to the notions of space, symbolism and tradition.

KLAUS PINTER

COLLECTIONS

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

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2015
Klaus Pinter, Anatomie du désordre, Le musée de l’île d’Oléron, France
 
2013
Chrysalide and Au premier matin, Centre for Arts and Nature, Domain of Chaumont sur Loire, France
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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En plein midi, installation de Klaus Pinter au Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, 2018 - © Éric Sander
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