15 September 2006 – 17 December 2006

... CONCEPT HAS NEVER MEANT HORSE.

Within the exhibition cycle on themes of the Generali Foundation Collection, the current show intends to engage questions regarding Conceptual art.
Conceptual art developed translocally in connection with the social and political changes of the 1960s. Well known in its Anglo-American linguistic variant, it moreover represents a critique on the medial, institutional, and social conditions of art. Serial structures, schematic procedures, diagrams, text, and theoretical reflections as well as new forms of the dissemination of information expand the artistic range of action.
In a reading area of the exhibition, historical magazines and publications offer an in-depth view of the variegated and novel forms of artistic production. In the context of the transition to a society based on communication and knowledge, these “innovative” strategies have come to be located in a complex and contentious field. Setting out from the Generali Foundation’s focus on socio-political and institution-critical approaches in the art of the 1960s and 1970s, the exhibition also shows their reception in the works of a younger, post-Conceptual generation.
The exhibition’s title is a quote from "Beware!", a text by the French pioneer of Conceptual art, Daniel Buren.

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