Rasterfahndung nach dem Authentischen

Michel Majerus ist in den Kanon der 1990er Jahre als ‹visueller DJ› eingegangen. Aber das Werk des all zu früh gestorbenen Künstlers bietet viel mehr als nur einen post-postmodernen Stilmix im Spannungsfeld von High and Low – wenn man es sich nur neu entfalten lassen würde.
In her first major institutional show in Switzerland Claudia Comte delivers all the dull mid-range design we’ve come to expect, but here there’s a lot more and, now, with the incredulous air of credibility. Titled 10 Rooms, 40 Walls, 1059 m2, and featuring over 60 paintings, 40 sculptures, 40 wall paintings and some prints, it’s an epic ode to the big, dumb and aggressively anti-intellectual.
Conceiving a thematic exhibition around a pioneering — or disastrous — moment in history has long become an accepted staple for exhibition makers seeking a reliable conceptual framework to lean on. Reconsidering this approach, the multi-faceted group show Myths of the Marble instead looks mostly to present fact and fiction.