Vernissage Marco Lulic

„Death of the Monument“ is not only the title of the exhibition from Marko Lulic at Galerie im Traklhaus which was opened yesterday evening. It is also the title of a huge sculpture which is situated in the courtyard, consisting of exactly these words in a typeface that reminds us of cowboy boots and western movies. Marko Lulic is a sculptor, his work deals mainly with two themes. First: what is a sculpture and more precisely what is a monument? And second what is modernism and how has it appeared in sculpture, city planning and architecture. When he researched about 10 years ago the modernist Yugoslavian monuments reminding of the partisans in World War second these two concerns merged. What he did was, he rebuilt these monuments as small models, as bricollages. These monuments as all monuments especially war memorials expressed how a society constitutes itself in constructing a specific view on ist own history. Another work in the exhibition is the video „Space Girl Dancer 2009“.  We see dancers re-enacting a choreography by Rachel Welsh within the sculpure garden of Erich Hauser in Rottweil / Germany, a garden with slightly old-fashioned modernistic sculptures. This choreography was originally shown in a TV special called „Rachel!“ 1970 done at a public space in Mexico as public art project for the olympic games in 1968.  The impression of the choreography was something between ethno, extra terrestrial and science fiction. Lulic transfers this modernistic combination of dance and sculpture to Germany,  invents new costumes and uses a newly composed music by Mario Neugebauer.  "It's interesting that the dancers as well as the video becomes a sculpture. The video is cut in a way that the sculptures start to dance as well." (opening words of Hildegund Amanshauser)