Playing Rules! The Collections

Opening: Mart 15th 2024; Exhibition until Sept. 1st 2024 Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Mönchsberg, level 1

Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau are taking part in the exhibition with their interactive work “Eau de Jardin”.

Curators: Stefanie Grünangerl, Doris Leutgeb, Marijana Schneider, Jürgen Tabor

Play is a special way of experiencing the world. It is a metaphor for social coexistence and a driver of cultural transformation. Enjoyable play helps us discover ourselves, our individual qualities, and abilities. Free play, meanwhile, can often turn bitterly serious. Playful contests let us experience social cooperation and competition. We learn how rules and systems operate and what it means to bend and break them.

The exhibition Playing Rules! centers on the theme of play in art. From nature, the body, and sport to communication and media imagery, these are just some of the areas artists explore through play, transforming them by way of interaction and improvisation. They show how art uses imagination to expand the limits of the possible and the potential of play in representing and, not infrequently, subverting social relationships.

With works by Marc Adrian, Josef Bauer, VALIE EXPORT, Harun Farocki, Nilbar Güreş, Hans Haacke, Jürgen Klauke, Julius Koller, Edward Krasiński, Sigalit Landau, Angelika Loderer, Dorit Margreiter Choy, Dóra Maurer, Robert Rauschenberg, Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau, Franz West
www.museumdermoderne.at/spielen-heisst-veraendern-die-sammlungen

"Eau de Jardin"
"Imagine a circular room, the dado below the wall molding entirely filled with a plane of water scattered with these plants, transparent screens sometimes green, sometimes mauve. The calm, silent, still waters reflecting the scattered flowers, the colors evanescent, with delicious nuances of a dream-like delicacy.“ Claude Monet.

Inspired by Monet’s late “Water Lilies” paintings and their panoramic setting at the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris, we constructed a large projection screen. The wide horizontal screens mentally immerse the viewers into the virtual picture of the water garden. “Eau de Jardin” is an interactive installation which transports visitors into the imaginary world of virtual water gardens.
www.interface.ufg.ac.at/EauDeJardin