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.
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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