CHRISTINE LJUBANOVIC
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| »Christine Ljubanovic in her studio in Paria« © Sophie Tramier, Paris | |||
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| Kunstraum Innsbruck | Maria-Theresien-Straße 34 / Arkadenhof | 6020 Innsbruck | www.kri.art
Curated by Robert Fleck and Karin Pernegger |
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KUNSTRAUM INNSBRUCK ABOUT THE ARTIST»Christine Ljubanovic, who was born in Zams, Tyrol, in 1939, and now lives in Paris, is a photographer, a graphic and, first of all, a conceptual artist. On the occasion of her eightieth birthday, in the summer of 2019, we dedicate her a comprehensive solo exhibition and present works by her created between 1965 and 2018. In her art, Ljubanovic cannot be pinned downed to one style. Her artistic practice, much rather, could be described through the technique of collecting, which she has made a contemporary witness to her art, as it were, in long-term studies.« |
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CONVERSATION PORTRAITS/PHOTO SUITES, 1974-2014Thus, between 1974 and 2014, close to five hundred black-and-white portraits of artists, curators and companions have come about. Among them are well-known personalities such as Hans Ulrich Obrist, Robert Fleck, Peter Weibel, but also colleagues like the Tyrolean artist Richard Hoeck, Ingeborg Strobl, Thomas Hirschhorn, Arnulf Rainer, and many others. The portrait, in each case, is deliberately staged and constitutes a psychogram of the person portrayed. These portrait series are presented on the contact sheet, exposed in their original size, holding around 24 or 36 images. By way of the picture sequence, the viewer is able to recreate the recording situation and read a story into the meeting between model and photographer. Hans Ulrich Obrist, photographed by Ljubanovic in 1996, wrote this on the project: “Dear Christine, your book is a protest against forgetting. Also: As Ansel Adams said: You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” |
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| »Doris Henzinger Oaxaca 1990« © Christine Ljubanovic | |||
ALPHABETS & SIGNS, LETTERS/LANDSIn other work series the artist dealt with typologies, inventories and archives, which she also assembled over long periods of time. In impressit ALPHABETS & SIGNS, LETTERS/LANDS, created between 1983 and 1993, she researched all printing techniques known around the world and visited the respective places and printing workshops. The result was an alphabet, whose twenty-six letters she designed typographically in association with the respective culture and had produced in collaboration with the respective printing expert. In this way, a total of forty different variants of letters emerged. Her research, in the process, ranged from very old to the latest techniques, and included woodcut, typography, aquatint, stencils, phototype, offset, etc. For instance, she visited Andy Warhol’s factory, with which she printed the letter R. Another interest of hers, for decades, has been the inventory of colours, pigments, patterns and scales – called in short F/P/M/S by the artist (for Farben, Pigmente, Muster, Skalen). In painstaking research she travels to their places of origin, for colours have places, and places have colours. She collects pigments and catalogues them, listing their countries of origin, type of rock, etc. The list includes colours made from ore minerals, rocks and gemstones, powdered glass, plants or historical pigments. |
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| »Exhibition view Christine Ljubanovic at Kunstraum Innsbruck« © Günter Richard Wett | |||
FARBEN/PIGMENTE/MUSTER/SKALENIn the project FARBEN/PIGMENTE/MUSTER/SKALEN original colour pigments and basic patterns from various cultures are depicted on paper in the form of picture sequences. This world trip into the structures and patterns of the peoples is tied in with the application of MATERIALS such as MINERAL-SOIL-PLANT COLOURS and GLUE MIXTURES. Naturally, GEOGRAPHICAL and CLIMATIC conditions are taken into account as well,” says Christine Ljubanovic. |
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| »Exhibition view Christine Ljubanovic at Kunstraum Innsbruck« © Günter Richard Wett | |||
ABOUT THE EXHIBITIONThe exhibition provides an insight into the artist’s modus operandi and indirectly transforms the exhibition room into a research room, in order to give her scrupulous collecting an artistic space. All through the years, she has returned regularly to her Tyrolean homeland and has been an important member of the local art scene. To this day, she cultivates a close dialogue with the Tyrolean artists of her generation and had very close ties with the recently deceased gallery owner Monika Lami (1940–2018) and her legendary Galerie Elefant in Zams. Not least for this reason we are very pleased to rediscover, here in Innsbruck, the work of this active Tyrolean expat. And we are very happy indeed to dedicate this special Tyrolean artist an exhibition on the occasion of her eightieth birthday.»Exhibition views Christine Ljubanovic at Kunstraum Innsbruck« all Photos © Günter Richard Wett |
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