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European Triennial of Small Sculpture
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Background
In 1999 the 14th Biennial of Small Sculpture in Murska Sobota Gallery was cancelled. Two years later, the 1st European Triennial of Small-scale Sculpture was launched, an initiative which gave the exhibition a fresh start and a new life. The 2001 curatorial committee (comprising Franc Obal, Aleksander Bassin, Franc Mesarič, Dr. Laszlo Beke and Dr. Cristoph Brockhaus, a director of Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum and Duisburg Center for European Modern Sculpture) conceived the new event in line with the theme of architectural sculpture, or rather as a dialogue between big and small, between architecture and sculpture. Further editions have been assembled with different themes according to an artistic director/curator working in conjunction with a international curatorial committee.
The exhibition is mounted usually from October to February.
Highlights from previous editions
The 1st Triennial in 2001 presented 30 works by authors from nine countries: Austria, Belgium, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Slovenia (Slavko Tihec, Jože Plečnik), Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.
In the 2nd Triennial of 2004, organised under the theme The Renaissance of the Human Statue, artistic director and curator Christoph Brockhaus with the help of colleagues Cosme de Barananov, Lóránd Hegyi, Dr. Raminta Jurénaité, Bo Nilson, Franc Obal, Sabine Maria Schmidt presented artistic positions from 24 countries: Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina¸ Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Lithuania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland. Among the 29 selected artists were: Paloma Varga Weisz, Per-Inga Björl, Marka Mandersa, Bruno Gironcoli in Finec Vesa-Pekka Rannikko, Hubertus Spörri, Bianca Maria Barmen, Thomas Stimm, Petar Ujević, Yves Netzhammer, Thomasa Schütte, Vana Urošević, Erwin Heerich.
The third triennial in 2007 was selected by curator Thomas Deecke, art historian and former director of the New Weserburg Museum in Bremen with curatorial help of seven colleagues Tatjana Antošina (Moscow), Katia Baudin-Reneau (Strassbourg), Bruno Corá (Firence/La Spezia, Andreas Hapkemeyer (Bolzano), Ulrich Loock/Ricardo Nicolau (Porto), Franc Obal (Murska Sobota), David Thorp (London) and Margit Zuckriegl (Salzburg). The title of the exhibition, Joke, Satire, Irony and Serious Meaning, was borrowed from a sociocritical comedy by the German Romantic author, Christian Dietrich Grabbe (1801–1836), written in 1823, but seldom performed today.
In the triennial catalogue, curator Deecke described the play and its author: "Grabbe was a contemporary during a very tumultuous epoch, in which political and social circumstances were rapidly changing, which meant that new, individual ways of thinking were feuding with the insistence on tradition; a new way of thinking was already on the horizon and was later recognized as the beginning of the modern age. This unknown new force had to forge its way through unexpected resistance and fight to question or possibly even overcome outdated rules. During such times protagonists have always used irony and satire and, of course, simple humor to resist the forces of insistence or to drive old rules to ad absurdum. Today, from an artistic point of view (and perhaps not only artistic – given that the development of the post-modern age is unforeseeable – when viewed in hindsight), artists once again favor the use of ironical aloofness and satirical pointedness. The abundance of sculptural materials – the proneness to satire – demanded an exhibition of these works pars pro toto to incite public discussion."
The 57 art works of 31 artists from 8 countries: Austria, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Portugal, Russia, and Slovenia were therefore selected on the basis of their ability to provoke a chuckle and point out incongruities in society. Artists exhibited: Saădane Afif, Tatjana Antošina, Mirko Bratuša, Doug Fishbone, Lutz Fritsch, Dieter Froelich, Neil Hamon, Dirk Dietrich Hennig, James Ireland, Juneau Projects, Ian Kiaer, Hubert Kostner, Marko A. Kovačič, Volker März, Eva Marisaldi, Isa Melsheimer, Mathieu Mercier, Jonathan Monk, Peter Niemann, Boštjan Novak, Rodrigo Oliveira, Renato Ranaldi, Giovanni Rizzoli, Franck Scurti, Julie Six, Andreas Slominski, Rostan Tavasiev, Christian Tinkhauser-Thurner, Baltazar Torres, Gerold Tusch and Veronika Veit.
Awards
At each triennial a jury bestows honourable mentions and purchases the award-winning works. In this way a permanent collection of small sculpture has been developing at the Murska Sobota Gallery.
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