Tobias Rehberger
Cafetaria awarded
June
7 - November 22, 2009
Tobias Rehberger is awarded the Golden Lion as best artist at the 53rd
International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia. Tobias Rehberger
received the price for the cafeteria called ' Was du liebst, bringt dich
auch zum Weinen' , for which he collaborated closely with Artek using
customized Artek furniture in an ingenious way. The cafeteria created
by Rehberger is a complex scheme of geometric forms with contrasting colors,
a visually disorienting environment that draws from a specific example
from the past: razzle dazzle or dazzle painting – a decorative style
used on ships during the First World War.
Tobias Rehberger
was awarded the Golden Lion as best artist for, as the jury puts it, “taking
us beyond the white cube, where past modes of exhibition are reinvented
and the work of art turns into a cafeteria. In this shift social communication
becomes aesthetic practice”.
The cafeteria of the Palazzo delle Exposizioni della Biennale is open
for the public during the 53rd Biennale Art Exhibiton.