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Wegrandhäuschen
Lois Weinberger
metal, herbarium
147 × 40 × 35 cm
1995
Acquisition 1996
Inv. No. 0020a
The name Wegrandhäuschen (Wayside House) is traceable to the name of the plant Wegwarte (Cichorium intybus), which has flowers that open at about 6 in the morning and close again around midday. Another train of thought leads to rural Greece. Wayside huts there act as “service points” for farmers and wanderers who can leave necessaries inside. They can only fulfil this function when rural communities maintain the depots, and people can rely on one another. One can see it as a socio-ecological cycle, a work of art as a metaphor for human endurance, a monument to caring, a worldly tabernacle.
The sculpture is simple, clear and functional. It is also a drawing in space to orientate oneself in the area (as series of similar little houses that Weinberger erected for documenta X in the urban area of Kassel had the same function).
On the back of the upper door there is a route map. The paths are named after the plants found there. There is a herbarium behind tin doors with stored plants and seeds that the artist collected in the wilderness area along the former Berlin Wall.
Wolfgang Kos, 2005 (translation: Tim Sharp)
Continue readingExhibitions
Wallpaper #5, evn sammlung, Maria Enzersdorf, 2022
Now, At The Latest. videos and other attractions from the evn collection, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, 2015
There is something you should know. Die EVN Sammlung im Belvedere, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, 2000
Lois Weinberger. Drift, Museum Moderner Kunst Wien, Vienna, 2000
Publications
Now, At the Latest, Maria Enzersdorf 2015, p. 36, 44
Lois Weinberger, 2013, p. 173
Lois und Franziska Weinberger [published on the occasion of the exhibition Lois und Franziska Weinberger, 24.10.2008 – 25.1.2009, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz], Linz 2008, p. 47
evn sammlung 95–05, Cologne 2005, p. 336 f
Das Kap am Kamp,
evn sammlung. Ankäufe 1995 – 1996, Maria Enzersdorf 1997, p. 39
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