Herbert Bayer: Gegliederte Wand, 1968/1985
© Bernhard Widder 2000

Herbert Bayer: Chromatisches Tor, 1991
© Bernhard Widder 2000

For the starting point of his work, Marko Lulic has chosen the history of the city of Linz and its relationship to architecture and ideology.

As in his other exhibitions, where he has sought to illustrate the connections between ideology, architecture, public space and society by dealing with existing or (meanwhile) destroyed monuments, replicating these monuments in drawings or models, at the O.K he will also attempt to create a work that simultaneously says something about public space, the possibility and impossibility of monuments in general, and about Linz in particular.

The installation refers to two works by Herbert Bayer, "Gegliederte Wand" ("Divided Wall", 1968/1985) and "Chromatisches Tor" ("Chromatic Gate", 1991), both of which were realized in public space. Marko Lulic takes Bayer's two works as the starting point for the spatial solution of his work: two larger, installative objects that allude to the form of Bayer's works, but differ from the originals due to distortion and material displacement.
What is important here is that these are exterior works that Lulic realizes as remakes and presents in the exhibition space.

The two objects are shown in a two-part video dealing with the architecture (history) of Linz. Lulic is interested here in both the reconstruction of Linz and the architecture created in the process, as well as the role conceived for Linz architectonically under National Socialism.

Marko Lulic
born 1972 in Vienna
grew up in Lika, Croatia, and Vienna
lives and works in Vienna

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selected)