Through her art Rita McBride brings the aesthetics of high-tech, speed, sport and modern architecture into the context of the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein.

Rita McBride has already created sculptures in many cities throughout the world, including Los Angeles, Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin. Standing invitingly in a white exhibition room is her Arena, a seemingly light-weight structure conveying both dynamism and at the same time a strange anticipation and deficiency. What will happen here? Her streamlined Toyota is made of rattan. What is this form? Where does this material originate? Rita McBride transfers the structure of Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye into the inner space of a museum. Among the other works on show are bronze parking-lots, transformations of sites which typify our civilisation.

Rita McBride engages in a discourse with particular places and the feelings experienced in them. In so doing she questions the stereotypes and appraises the egalitarian character of urban planning and architecture, i.e., serialism and standardisation, not omitting the parameter of industrialisation. The artist inquires about the utopian ideas concerning a new world order that these may be masking. Are they perhaps the source of present-day disorientation and loss of identity? By means of her sculptures Rita McBride provides a platform for questions relating to civilisation and social cohesion, and chiefly concerning the embodiment of an idea.

More pictures to this exhibition

  • Rita McBride
    Exhibition view Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Photo: Markus Tretter © Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein
  • Rita McBride
    Exhibition view Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Photo: Markus Tretter © Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein
  • Rita McBride
    Exhibition view Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Photo: Markus Tretter © Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein
  • Rita McBride
    Exhibition view Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Photo: Markus Tretter © Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein
  • Opening
  • Wed, 29.5.2002
    18.00
  • Wed 29.5.

    Opening

    Rita McBride. Naked Came the Stranger
  • Tue 18.6.

    Reading

    Architecture and Form
    Sabine Kranz, interior designer, und Katrin Wenaweser und Horst Eisterer, architects
  • Fri 21.6.

    Reading

    Landscape
    Mit Josef Biedermann, Rektor Liechtenseinisches Gymansium, Vaduz, und Hansjörg Quaderer, Maler und Buchkünstler
  • Tue 25.6.

    Reading

    \"Sprache und Ausgrenzung\"
    \"Mit Matthias Ospelt, Autor und Kabarettist und Manfred Schlapp, Schriftsteller und Publizist\"
  • Fri 28.6.

    Reading

    Economy
    with Wilfried Oehry, Farmer and Stefan Sprenger, writer
  • Sun 30.6.

    Special Event

    Soccer-WM-Final Germany : Brasil
  • Tue 9.7.

    Artist film

    Jeanne Faus
    several movies, loop, 8'
  • Fri 12.7.

    Film

    Hair
    by Milos Forman, USa 1979, 119'
  • Sat 13.7.

    Film

    Dogtown and Z-Boys
    by Stacy Peralta, USA 2001, 97'
  • Mon 15.7.

    Film

    It Happened in Broad Daylight
    by Ladislao Vajda, D 1958, 95'
  • Sat 10.8.

    Artist film

    Blick: New Nordic Film and Video 2001
    50 videos and movies of the last 5 years by 40 artist from the nordic countries
  • Fri 16.8.

    Concert

    Guitarconcert by Leon Koudelak
    works by Carlo Domeniconi, David Coverdale, Joaquin Turina, Edouardo Martin, Glenn Hughes