Kunstmuseum Luzern
Marion Baruch
Marion Baruch’ retrospective at Kunstmuseum Luzern
The conflicts of the 20th century are reflected in the long life of Marion Baruch (*1929): fascism, capitalism, communism, feminism, pacifism, migration, classes, nations, religions, linguistic communities, political ideologies. Marion Baruch concerns herself with internal worlds and external spaces.
Consequently this artist’s work revolves around the theme of emptiness; she works with gaps, through views and transparency. She speaks of the “void”, meaning not a spiritual nothingness but rather a free space, in the literal sense, to be understood as an invitation to the viewer. For her project une chambre vide (an empty room, 2009) the artist cleared out a room in her small apartment and, over the course of a month, invited people to come and talk there every afternoon, when the sun outlined a warm rectangle on the wooden floor. The room may be empty, but everything else is there: openness, curiosity, delightful exchange, warm sunlight… The word Marion Baruch has coined, innenausseninnen (insideoutsideinside), creates an embracing openness and raises the question of who belongs and who remains outside
The conflicts of the 20th century are reflected in the long life of Marion Baruch (*1929): fascism, capitalism, communism, feminism, pacifism, migration, classes, nations, religions, linguistic communities, political ideologies. Marion Baruch concerns herself with internal worlds and external spaces.
Consequently this artist’s work revolves around the theme of emptiness; she works with gaps, through views and transparency. She speaks of the “void”, meaning not a spiritual nothingness but rather a free space, in the literal sense, to be understood as an invitation to the viewer. For her project une chambre vide (an empty room, 2009) the artist cleared out a room in her small apartment and, over the course of a month, invited people to come and talk there every afternoon, when the sun outlined a warm rectangle on the wooden floor. The room may be empty, but everything else is there: openness, curiosity, delightful exchange, warm sunlight… The word Marion Baruch has coined, innenausseninnen (insideoutsideinside), creates an embracing openness and raises the question of who belongs and who remains outside