Long after Shintaro Miyake, from Japan, the museum showed a contemporary collaboration with existing displays in the museum. HUHUMAN is what Marianne Maderna calls her flat, hanging figures made of fluorescent Plexiglas that are juxtaposed in the exhibition galleries with masterpieces executed by the Gugging Artists.  Hung in small groups, Maderna’s sculptures represent recurring, archetypal patterns of behavior. The different facets of human nature are ruthlessly put on display. The HUHUMAN are a mirror of society: They prompt reflection, deliver a warning against vanities and inanities, and are meant simultaneously to preserve us from disaster.

Contemporary artists have been following the Gugging Artists and their work with keen interest since their drawings were first published by the psychiatrist Leo Navratil in the Sixties.  Maderna’s artistic intervention offered the audience an opportunity to take part in this fascinating and vibrant dialogue between creators of art.

Marianne Maderna, born in Vienna in 1944, lives in Vienna and Lower Austria. She uses her interdisciplinary practice to thematize socially relevant issues that relate to the human condition.

The catalog connected. marianne maderna in dialogue with the artists from gugging contains an essay by Eva Badura-Triska.

Curator: Johann Feilacher