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Wer kann sich vorstellen, ob man einen Wuerfel, jede der sechs Flaechen neun Millimeter gross, in einer 50 Meter langen und zehn Meter breiten Halle sieht. Wer kann sich denken, welche Kraft von einem solch Fingernagel-grossen Objekt im leeren Raum ausgeht. Um Wissen, Vorstellen, Denken geht es bei der Ausstellung, die am Freitag im Koelnischen Kunstverein eroeffnet wurde und die Cildo Meireles und Lawrence Weiner zusammenfuehrt. So karg die optische Erscheinung ist, so vielseitig und reich ist der geistige Ertrag aus diesem Aufeinandertreffen von Nord und Sued, von Weiners Konzept- Verstaendnis und dem von Meireles. Umso erstaunlicher ist der Zusammenklang der beiden Arbeiten von Weiner und Meireles jetzt im Kunstverein - zu dessen explosiver Harmonie auch der wunderbare 500-qm-Raum beitraegt und das sommerliche Licht- und Schattenspiel.

Installation view, Capp Street Projects, San Francisco. . Cildo Meireles - New Museum of Contemporary Art - Absolutearts. Generally acknowledged as the most influential conceptual artist working in Latin America today, Meireles (b. 1948) creates pieces that require the spectator to abandon the traditionally passive role of the museum visitor and to arrive at a heightened sensory and cognitive perception through direct interaction with the installation. Clark, Oiticica and Pape formulated a culturally responsive variation of what would come to be known as Conceptual art, adopting esthetic strategies in opposition to a government that compromised free expression, a position that Meireles adopted as well. . In 1970, Cildo Meireles authored the text "Cruzeiro do Sul" as a contribution to the catalogue of the "Information" exhibition organized by Kynaston McShine at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Meireles wrote that he had no interest in defending either his work or his nationality. Instead, he said, he would write about the formerly uncharted region south of the equator that is named--in the telling of this fable--Cruzeiro do Sul, for the constellation of the Southern Cross. Minh-ha, and Cornel West Thirty essayists address the visual, social, and psychological aspects of representation and cultural identity. . Cildo Meireles Essay by curator and critic Paulo Herkenhoff; an interview between Meireles and Gerardo Mosquera exploring the artist's philosophy and methods and the impact of politics, ecology, and music on his work; an essay by Dan Cameron focusing on Desvio para o Vermelho (Red Shift); and a text by Jorge Luis Borges. A fully illustrated catalogue co-published by Phaidon Press presents an overview of Meireles's art from 1967 to the present. This is the first extended-length English-language publication on Meireles's work, and the first in Phaidon's acclaimed series on contemporary art to focus on a Latin American artist.
further information: http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/current/index.html#cildo

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