Postgravity Art - ORBITA NOORDUNG

Dragan Živadinov, Dunja Zupančič and Miha Turšič

11.05.2008 - 08.06.2008

MAK Depot of Contemporary Art Gefechtsturm Arenbergpark

The presentation of "Postgravity Art - ORBITA NOORDUNG" at the flak tower in Arenbergpark is a kind of tribute paid to the visionary satellite and space technology pioneer Hermann Potočnik, who was born 1892 in Croatia and died 1929 in Vienna. Under the pseudonym of Hermann Noordung, he published as early as 1928 his ideas for satellites and space stations which informed the design and building of the geostationary Sputnik satellite.

The artists Dragan Živadinov, Dunja Župančič, and Miha Turšič see in the Sputnik, on the one hand, a 20th century icon, and on the other, a Suprematist formation, Suprematism being a modernist style that derived from Constructivism and Futurism. In this sense, they contend, the Sputnik is the first supra-modernist entity, combining in itself both the Suprematist spherical form as well as, through its antennae, Constructivist functions.

Curator Janina Strobl
Project co-ordinatior Dunja Gottweis