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Attack! Art and War in the Media Age
23 May – 21 September 2003
hall 1 KUNSTHALLE wien

fig.: Collier Schorr, Andreas – POW (Every Good Soldier was a Prisoner of War), Germany, 2001, Courtesy 303 gallery, New York

Although it does not undifferentiatedly mix war and social violence, the exhibition Attack! picks up where war leaves its traditional milieu as defined by Clausewitz. Attack! shows how contemporary artists deal with war, its reflections in the media and its iconography. In Attack! media includes Afghan carpets with motifs of tanks and firearms just as much as it includes Antonio Riello’s decorated hand grenades and submachine guns or Uroš Djuric’s fictitious magazine covers, upon which war, porno and pop culture enter into an unholy symbiosis. Other artists like Korpys/Löffler, Dejan Andjelkovic, Peter Fend and Oliver Ressler investigate geopolitical scenarios where “new wars” (Mary Kaldor) are often not conducted for the purpose of territorial expansion, but to obtain resources, entrepreneurial advantage and symbolic superiority.

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