Its title "White Cube Jesus" intrigued me, so I drove the 60 km in order to view this work.
This Museum is beautifully situated in a former Palace which includes a Christian Chapel.
This is what I found:
In the chapel, which contains no benches or other furnishings, there is a large "white cube", with the front wall missing, brilliantly lit from the inside.
The Artist is one Ms. Sonja Gangl. Her work is described in an accompanying brochure as "concentrated, focused, reductive and minimal."
I find it difficult to become enthusiastically moved, although it is suggested that this "puristic white cuboid may be interpreted at once as a sculpture, stage set, and theatrical framework..... "
indeed, within this "cuboid" a theatre piece was performed, called: "Nipple Jesus".
Unfortunately, not having seen it, I have no idea what this drama was all about.
The question raises itself: Is this a "work of art?"
It certainly is a white cuboid, placed almost as a challenge into the baroque-style, ecclesiastical surrounding and thusly urges the viewer to contemplate specifically this work and generally the question of Art.
Maybe the concept of "Art" can only be found, as I said in an earlier piece, in the discussion about the fundamental question: "What is Art?"
Compare Albrecht Dürer's "Young Hare" or L.d.V's. "Last Supper" with Sonja Gangls "White Cube Jesus."
Can it be said that these are just different kinds of Art?
Maybe?
"White Cube Jesus"
an Installation by Sonja Gangl"
in the "Burgkapelle"
at the Museum of Modern Art in Klagenfurt.
... taken from the Choir Loft of the Chapel.
( unfortunately a somewhat less than perfect exposure does not show
details, such as where the joints of the inside of this cube appear.
there is, of course, a floor, side walls and a back wall
which appear here as a single white surface.)
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