Christoph Meier Exhibition at the Secession: Art, Copying, and Repetition

This exhibition by Christoph Meier explores the performative and narrative potentials of artistic media and presentation formats, focusing on the concept of copying, duplication, and repetition. Visitors can expect to see how Meier develops new objects and situations through the act of copying, examining the relationship between original and copy.

The exhibition by Christoph Meier at the Secession centers on his characteristic geometric-abstract forms and the use of objects as representatives of action, highlighting the performative and narrative potential of media and presentation formats. Meier views exhibitions as transient moments, and for this show, he developed a new exhibition situation based on his prior work in the Secession in November 2010. This new configuration is varied across a brochure and a catalog, a concept described by Patrizia Dander as an echo chamber. The theme of copying is central, exploring the existence of originals, copies, and copies of copies, which points to a system and structure. Meier states that copying is a fundamental procedure for artistic form-finding, enabling change, liberation, and the development of new objects by incorporating 'errors' into the process. The copied objects are derived from pedestal images selected and commented on by Francesco Stocchi, which Meier has reduced to the simplest basic forms, sometimes imprecisely rebuilt, to create new objects. He integrates a copying machine into the exhibition that continuously produces a 16-page brochure with a text by Francesco Stocchi and images of Meier's sculptures, making the copy a printed medium to represent the objects and their handling. This copier itself serves as a pedestal, producing other pedestal objects. The overall staging in the exhibition space is described as a spatial abstraction of the processes within a copying machine, with contrasting lighting, movable perforated sheet metal creating a grid, and a gray curtain reminiscent of veils found in copiers, all reflecting the exhibition's theme of reproduction and mimicry.

Tickets for the Secession are available and visitors can access booking information via a provided link. The page also indicates that the Secession is open daily from Sunday to Tuesday, 10 AM to 6 PM, but specific exhibition ticket pricing or booking requirements are not detailed here beyond a general link to ticketing services.