20 September 2007 – 18 November 2007

Tue Greenfort - PIOTR UKLANSKI

In his photographic works, collages, sculptures, and installations, Polish artist Piotr Uklański uses stereotypical motifs and strategies from pop culture, art, and cinema to address issues of cultural identity and authenticity.
Uklanski has a reputation for a certain insolence with regard to the way he plays with audience expectations, the way he not only uses strategies of selfpromotion and marketing but also draws on them for fundamental aspects of his conceptual work, and the way he coopts references. He starts with pictures that are already bankrupt, hackneyed, and hollow and proceeds to totally destroy them. He recycles visuals, concepts, and clichés—landscapes, sunsets, Hollywood, great artists, collectors, curators—and gives them a new presence, both crass and seductive, precisely by questioning the politics of different visual worlds. But it would be wrong to describe his approach as either critical or affirmative. These categories will not stick to his perfect surfaces, just as they won’t stick to the works of Jeff Koons.

Address

Secession
Friedrichstrasse 12
1010 Wien
phone +43 1 587 53 07
http://www.secession.at

Opening Hours

Tuesday-Sunday 10 a.m. - 6 p.m., Thursday 10 a.m. - 8 p.m., closed on Monday.

Description of the Museum

Gustav Klimt's "Beethoven Frieze" is exposed in the building.

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