Austrian Heimo Zobernig's work intervenes, rearranges, recontextualizes, and down-right makes fun of the architecture of museum/gallery spaces so as to demystify its illusory potential and reinscribe it with self-referentiality. Zobernig is among several significant contemporary artists such as Michael Asher, General Idea, and Daniel Buren who have made it their mission to critique sites of modern art. In Zobernig's 1996 installation at the Renaissance Society, the gallery walls from the preceding exhibition were laid flat on the floor-a neat-handed figure/ground reversal turning support into sculpture.

In another provocative turn, Zobernig brought the outside in to this altered gallery space via video - he had himself filmed cavorting around the Renaissance Society hallway naked in front of walls that were painted video back-drop blue; this image was then super-imposed on footage shot while driving around Chicago.

28 pp., 12 color, 1 b/w illus., paperback
ISBN 0-941548-36-8