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Daniel Wagener – dispositif(s) by Casino Luxembourg

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Luxembourg Art Week is a unique opportunity for Casino Luxembourg to mark its presence outside its well-defined institutional framework and explore new artistic paths.

This migration is, in part, an autobiographical mirror for the artist from the project's debut at NN Contemporary Art in Northampton (UK) in 2016, home to a significant Polish diaspora, and the artist's native Luxembourg where the show will be held by Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain in 2018. ARTIST (S): UNITED INSTRUMENTS OF LUCILIN as part of The Gray Man The musicians of the United Instruments of Lucilin ensemble are once again taking over the Casino Luxembourg exhibition hall this year and are exploring all the possibilities to show the current exhibition - The Gray Man (14.11 - 31.1.2021, cur.: Benjamin Bianciotto) - to the public, transforming it into a real meeting place. Casino Luxembourg - Contemporary Art Forum Ideally located in the heart of the capital, the Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'Art Contemporain hosts contemporary art exhibitions. The arts centre provides public spaces with a variety of uses and purposes, combining contemporary art with a warm and friendly meeting place. Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain organises exhibitions on contemporary art and attests the variety and complexity of current art movements. The international exhibition programme.

Driven by the desire to experiment and promote young local artists, Casino Luxembourg will be teaming up with Daniel Wagener, a Luxembourgish artist living in Brussels, to present dispositif(s), an exhibition and a participatory project that questions the material conditions of exhibition-making through the tools and devices characteristic of trade fairs and commercial presentations. An artist and designer, Wagener identifies and documents these artificial elements by means of photographs that reveal their hidden beauty. He also reflects on the presentation of his own photographs by transforming them into three-dimensional, almost sculptural objects.

Wagener, who runs a printing workshop in Brussels, wants us to share his passion for books, which he sees not only as presentation devices, but also as objects in their own right, or even works of art. During Luxembourg Art Week, he will allow visitors to experiment with different modes of printing as they create and assemble their own notebook or sketchbook.

Free Admission

08.11.–10.11.2019
Halle Victor Hugo, Casino Luxembourg Area

In the case of the Casino Luxembourg, Urs Raussmüller – while retaining the historic architectural structure – transformed a building from 1882 into a contemporary exhibition space that was going to change Luxemburg. Later given the added name „Forum d’art contemporain“, it has remained a vibrant institution with an international echo to this day.

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When Luxemburg became the European Cultural Capital in 1995, it needed an exhibition venue that had to be quickly available on the one hand, and, on the other, inexpensive – a new museum was planned to be built later. With his suggestion to redesign the former Casino Bourgeois, Urs Raussmüller succeeded in finding an aesthetically and functionally convincing solution. In the process, he not only created the architecture, but a entire institution that continues to operate to this day.

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In the casino, which had been returned to an elementary condition, Raussmüller placed 13 neutral cubes without ceilings and as a result created an ideal structure for exhibitions. The series of spaces is interrupted by in-between spaces in which the former Casino is visible. Each cube is an entity in itself and thus allows for a concentrated focus on the respective artworks.

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The goal of each phase of the concept and the reconstruction was the desire to give the artworks the necessary surface, space and light so that they could develop their full potential. At the end of the cultural year in Luxemburg, the Casino became the one and only forum for contemporary art in Luxemburg. Up to today, its goal is to make visible the diversity and complexity of contemporary visual arts.

The two initial exhibitions that Urs Raussmüller organized in 1995/1996 demonstrated the versatility and adaptability of the exhibition architecture: the opening exhibition, “Luxe, calme et volupté. Regards sur le Post-Impressionnisme” with works by Van Gogh, Cézanne and Gauguin, among others, looked towards collectors’ activities in Switzerland’s Winterthur at the beginning of the 20th century. The following exhibition, “Main Stations”, featuring works by Pollock, Warhol, Newman, Stella and their contemporaries, directed its focus to the present and the major innovations in art since 1950. Catalogues were published for both exhibitions by Urs and Christel Raussmüller.