Moment.Monument

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This publication on the exhibition "Moment.Monument" presents international positions of contemporary sculpture on the conflicting notions of duration and transitoriness. The exhibition addresses the contradiction between the traditional concept of the monument as a memorial and the processual approaches in contemporary sculpture. Artistic approaches today build on formal research that reaches into the past in a self-evident and calm manner. The approach to historical positions is broad, innovative, diverse, and independent. It is further refined by process-oriented approaches, novel materials, and the use of contemporary techniques. Artists expand the historical positions through a content-related or poetic charging of the sometimes self-referential earlier forms. The enthusiastic citation of historical positions serves as a method for redefining the concept of the monument. The focus is on multi-layered strategies of narration and memory that reveal art to the world as monuments to a present that is as fleeting as it is fragile.