until Sunday January 11 2015

Mak - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art
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Stubenring 5
A - 1010 Wien
Austria

Valentin Ruhry opens up associative realms for reflection on the sociocultural process of change that was initiated by the Internet as the dominant utopia of our time and offers a subtle criticism of the experiential dimension of contemporary consumer culture. In his minimalist installation,Ruhryaddresses the subtle displays found in these stores and presents a selection of everyday objects cast in aluminum from the context of the train station in place of digital devices.

For his solo exhibition at the MAK, the artist, whose work is situated between sculpture and conceptual art, developed a large-scale installation that formally and aesthetically alludes to the corporate design of product displays by international makers of digital products. With the exhibition title Grand Central, Ruhry both directly and figuratively references the topic of decentralization, an integral component of the digital world against the background of the global networking and analysis of people, products, and data through digital media and social networks.