Hans Schabus

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HANS SCHABUS
Text by Miguel Sequeira Wandschneider, Pablo Fernandez Fanego.
MODERNE KUNST NüRNBERG
ISBN: 9783869843933 | US $39.00
Pub Date: 5/31/2013
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HANS SCHABUS: DESERTED CONQUEST
Edited by Katia Zavitovski, Joanne Lefrak. Text by Laura Heon.
SITE SANTA FE
ISBN: 9780976449263 | US $20.00
Pub Date: 2/1/2008
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HANS SCHABUS: THE LAST LAND
Edited by Max Hollein. Essays by Franz Xaver Baier, Elke Krasny and August Ruhs.
WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
ISBN: 9783851600605 | US $25.00
Pub Date: 3/1/2006
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HANS SCHABUS: DAS RENDEZVOUSPROBLEM
Edited by Eckhard Schneider. Essays by Winfried Müller, Rudolf Sagmeister and Friedrich Dürrenmatt.
KUNSTHAUS BREGENZ
ISBN: 9783883759074 | US $55.00
Pub Date: 8/15/2005
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HANS SCHABUS: TRANSPORT
Essay by Harald Uhr.
ONESTAR PRESS
ISBN: 9782915359060 | US $25.00
Pub Date: 2/15/2005
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Hans Schabus

Hans Schabus

Text by Miguel Sequeira Wandschneider, Pablo Fernandez Fanego.
Published by Moderne Kunst Nürnberg

This catalogue documents the most important films, collages and sculptures of Austrian artist Hans Schabus (born 1970), made between 1999 and 2011. The book compiles 1:1 detail photographs (c. 9 x 12 inches) of all of his works, thus constituting a sort of sample book of Schabus’ media and materials.

Hans Schabus: Deserted Conquest

Edited by Katia Zavitovski, Joanne Lefrak. Text by Laura Heon.
Published by SITE Santa Fe

Renowned for disrupting and reconfiguring space in unexpected ways, Austrian artist Hans Schabus, born in 1970, produces site-specific installations that use spatial displacement to debunk cultural symbols. For his first solo museum exhibition in the United States, Schabus made Deserted Conquest, a 15,000-square-foot installation commissioned by SITE Santa Fe, 2007. Taking the New Mexico landscape as his subject, he created a series of confrontations that dismantle our cultural romanticism of the desert landscape and idealizations of "the West." This consisted of two new videos, sculptures, drawings and a variety of found objects, including a partially reconstructed mobile home and more than 100 tons of dirt. Viewers were encouraged to navigate the terrain freely, their tracks transforming the space over time. As a further conceit orchestrated by the artist, the catalogue's full-color images are photographed along cardinal lines, lending the reader a fresh perspective on the original exhibit.

Hans Schabus: The Last Land

Edited by Max Hollein. Essays by Franz Xaver Baier, Elke Krasny and August Ruhs.
Published by Walther König, Köln

Twenty-five year old Hans Schabus represented Austria at the Venice Biennale in 2005--and stole hearts from all over the world--by building the Austrian Pavilion a Darth Vader-like mountain fa°ade. His craggy black exterior was as unfriendly as its interior was charming, with labyrinthine staircases up to the summit where viewers were granted skylight views of the sea and the city.

Hans Schabus: Das Rendezvousproblem

Edited by Eckhard Schneider. Essays by Winfried Müller, Rudolf Sagmeister and Friedrich Dürrenmatt.
Published by Kunsthaus Bregenz

Let's get lost: best known for his installations and artistic explorations, often recorded on video, Hans Schabus here transforms the entire Peter Zumthor-designed Kunsthaus Bregenz into a complex and convoluted architectonic and mental path of discovery in search of both the self and the building's history. At the museum Schabus blocks the main entrance, requiring admission through a loading dock; the ground floor holds pond liner, topped with puddles, fire hoses and pumps to recall the deluge of 1999, when the Kunsthaus was flooded by Lake Constance; the darkened second floor's projection space documents Schabus's train trips to the museum; and he transforms the third floor into a disorienting “white cube,” undermining the standard notion of exhibition space. This book, designed in cooperation with the artist, traces his strategy through images, conceptual plans and texts (including Friedrich Dürrenmatt's short story “The Tunnel”, and provides a complete record of this highly-regarded emerging artist's most ambitious work to date.

Hans Schabus: Transport

Essay by Harald Uhr.
Published by Onestar Press

Transport documents Austrian artist Hans Schabus' new installation. It is a tale of the penetration of and research into untrodden, unseen spaces, with which the artist has always been fascinated. First, Schabus dug a hole more than 16 feet deep in his studio in order to connect to Vienna's sewage system, and thereby make his way to the Secession, where he exhibited in 2003. This was fictional; the hole was filled before reaching a sewer. But the film “Astronaut” documents this fictional journey to Secession with a real one through the building--exterior, entrance hall, parking spaces--and its subterranean world--heating and sanitation systems, stairs, narrow, barely-lit halls, getting into the constructed volume of the artist's studio, then finally through a small door into the exhibition space. Presented here are stills from the film and photographs, Schabus's sketches and a map of his intended path.