Intro
Spiegelgasse
Hauser & Wirth, London
18 May–28 July 2018
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Referring to the address of Cabaret Voltaire–the birthplace of Dada in Zurich, Switzerland–the exhibition Spiegelgasse presents Swiss artists from the 1930s to today. Taking historiographical cues from the literal translation of the street name, art history is not interpreted as an evolutionary process, but rather as a hall of mirrors in which artists’ practices encounter, reflect, fragment, and recombine through time. The group show inquired into the legacies of Dadaist and Surrealist Art. Evidently, the milieu of an overly rationalized Swiss society proved a breeding ground for art defined by humor, nonsense, and subjectivity: qualities seen in the reflections and refractions of Swiss art to this day.
Artists:
Urs Fischer, Fischli/Weiss, Alberto Giacometti, Manon, Fabian Marti, Jill Mulleady, Meret Oppenheim, Pipilotti Rist, Emmanuel Rossetti, Vivian Suter, Daniel Spoerri, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, André Thomkins, Jean Tinguely, and Andro Wekua
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