Ingeborg Lüscher asks a wisewomen to read her cards. The installation is inspired not only by the card constellations and the predictions of the old lady, but as well shows a transscription of the artists’s dreams during the following six months.

IL294

 

Avant – Après. Sheer Prophecy – True Dreams, 1973-1974

 

Room installation

9 showcases (wood, glass, paint, gauze, plastic blanket, cardboard), each 10 x 88 x 63 cm

9 wooden bases (emulsion paint, wood), each 107.5 x 90 x 83 cm

22 text panels (1 explanation, 9 prophecies, 12 dreams), framed, different dimensions

Overall 160 x 1200 x 83 cm

Verso showcase 9 I. Lüscher 1974


Stiftung Situation Kunst, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 2021

 

Private Collection

 

Provenance

The artist

 

Artist Book

Ingeborg Lüscher, Avant – Après. Sheer Prophecy – True Dreams, Genève: Centre d’art contemporain 1980

 

Exhibitions

Galerie Loeb, Bern 1976

Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris 1976

Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Wien 1977

Forum Stadtpark, Graz 1977

Galerie Krinzinger, Innsbruck 1977

Museum Casa Anatta, Ascona 1978 (Kunsthaus Zürich 1978-1979. Akademie der Künste, Berlin 1979. Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Wien 1979)

Galerie Maeght, Zürich 1980

Centre d’art contemporain, Genève 1980

Kunstmuseum Solothurn 1982

1991 Zürich/Madrid

MART Rovereto 2004

 

Catalogues

Solothurn 1982. Wiesbaden 1993, p 95. Rovereto 2004, pp 54-57

 

Texts

Kunstforum international 6/1978, pp 193ff. Fürstenberg 1980. Artistes 1981. Kohlmeyer 1997. Herzog 1999, pp 20-21