Research Catalog

Title

Adriana Czernin : Fragment / herausgegeben von Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, Johannes Wieninger.

Publication

• Wien : MAK : Schlebrügge.Editor, [2018]
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Czernin, Adriana, 1969-
• Österreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst, host institution.
• Thun-Hohenstein, Christoph,
• Wieninger, Johannes,

Description

63 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 25 cm

Summary

Inspired by the tableau with the wooden ornaments of the minbar of the Ibn Tulun Mosque in Cairo from the year 1296, a masterpiece of the Mameluke era, the artist Adriana Czernin developed a work series that takes as its theme the different aspects of geometric construction. In doing so, she sees ornament as a metaphor for cultural, social, and personal entanglements. Construction and deconstruction - keeping to strict rules but also breaking and dodging them - are components of Czernin's intensive work with the ornamental element. Apart from the strictly formal approach to the historic relict's language of forms, Czernin focuses on the function of the ornament as vehicle of tradition and religion, thus alluding to its transcendent significance. Exhibition: MAK - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Wien, Austria (18.04. - 30.09.2018).

Uniform Title

• Adriana Czernin.
• Adriana Czernin. English.

Alternative Title

Fragment : Adriana Czernin

Subject

• Czernin, Adriana, 1969- > Exhibitions
• Geometrical constructions in art > Exhibitions

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• In German and English.

Exhibitions (note)

• On the occasion of the exhibition "Adriana Czernin, Fragment" held at MAK, Vienna, April 18 - September 30, 2018.

ISBN

3903172294

LCCN

9783903172296

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries