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Dear EIKON-Readers,
Dear Friends,

Magazine Launch #102

On June 7, EIKON #102 will be launched and will colorfully guide you through this year's summer.

This time EIKON presents the artists Anna Artaker, Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński and Bernd Oppl, as well as Axel Hütte and Isabelle Le Minh in the PORTFOLIO section, Tim Otto Roth is in conversation with one of the major media philosophers of recent times (IN FOCUS: Fact or Fake). Furthermore, EIKON #102 includes articles on Jochen Lempert at KUNST HAUS WIEN, Hito Steyerl and Martha Rosler at Kunstmuseum Basel and exhibition suggestions by Nadine Wietlisbach, the new director of the Fotomuseum Winterthur, which all will get you in the mood for visiting these shows.

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Magazine Launch EIKON #102
When: June 7, 2018 at 7pm
Where: EIKON Schaufenster, Q21 at MuseumsQuartier Wien / Schauräume, Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna

Aníbal Catalán: Babel. tomorrow was another day

The installation Babel: tomorrow was another day, which Aníbal Catalán drew for EIKON Schaufenster, suggests a cynic comment on the modernist concept. Trained as an architect and visual artist, Catalán revisited through his body of work the failures, utopias and heterotopias of modernism.

The title refers to Babel, built while being destroyed. It embodies the promise of a “tomorrow” that never will come.

Central point of the installation is a wall painting, that depicts a synthesis of the architectonical concepts of space and land. In the foreground, the video Babel, and the body of work compounded by collages and sculptures, enclosed within the display window, are related to the avant-garde movements of the 20th century, and their formalistic concepts. The dynamic between wall and window is used by Catalán as an aesthetic proposal for the actuality of architecture and avant-garde.

Aníbal Catalán lives and works in Mexico City. He was born in 1973, studied Fine Arts at the National School La Esmeralda and Architecture at the School of Architecture/Universidad Anahuac in Mexico City. He belongs to a new generation of Mexican artists that works with the link between architecture and arts. Among others, Catalán has been participating in several solo exhibitions in Mexico City, Tokio, Seoul and Los Angeles.

At this evening of this opening EIKON presents EIKON issue #102.

Aníbal Catalán. Babel: tomorrow was another day
10 years of EIKON Schaufenster | A project by wildpalms in cooperation with EIKON

Exhibition: June 8—August 19, 2018, daily from 10am to 10pm
Opening: June 7, 2018 at 7pm
Location: EIKON Schaufenster, Q21 at MuseumsQuartier Wien / Schauräume, Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna

EIKON at Fotobook Festival Kassel

The 10th Fotobook Festival Kassel celebrates its anniversary with a high class guest list: David Goldblatt, Anders Petersen, Susan Meiselas, John Gossage, JH Engström, Dana Lixenberg, Thomas Sauvin, Carlos Spottorno, Mathieu Asselin, Gerhard Steidl, Gerry Badger, Yanyou Yuan Di, Rémi Coignet, Markus Schaden, Valentina Abenavoli (Akina Books) and many more will come to Kassel for lectures, talks, exhibitions and workshops. Until April 3, you have the possibility to apply for the annual KASSEL DUMMY AWARD, with this year’s first DUMMY REVIEWS. Additionally, 50 international publishers and booksellers will present themselves in the documenta hall, the work of our guests and the books of the KASSEL PHOTOBOOK AWARD and the KASSEL DUMMY AWARD will be exhibited.

Fotobook Festival Kassel 2018
Opening: May 31, 2018 at 6pm documenta hall, 7pm Dock 4 Anniversary Party: June 2, 2018, 6pm–1am, Dock 4
When: May 31 to June 3, 2018: 6pm–8pm, after 7pm Dock 4 , June 1 + 2: 10am–7pm, after 6pm Dock 4, June 3: 10 am–4pm

Further information: Fotobook Festival Kassel

EIKON is available at the magazine section in the documenta-Halle.

Best wishes
Your EIKON Team