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The Only One

The first showroom-exhibition was entitled “The Only One” and was installed in a former butcher’s shop in Rohrbach in 1989: The room was closed. The two artists Joachim Eckl and Georg Lindorfer knew that it was impossible to make a good bargain with these sealed images of space. This intention was not aimed at anyway for both artists knew in times of a booming art market that art is not about business. The actual value of art is to be found beyond money. It’s about taking up and filling space. The aim is to take possession of commercial premises and open them to free creativity. It became clear that the surprise effect of the blockade of commercial premises in the daily life of passers-by rushing from display to display helped to make these interventions work in public space. At the same time were the three-dimensional pictures in space a reintroduction of perspective: Every viewer had to find his specific personal position and thus his own picture. Within 4 years over 40 showroom-exhibitions were realised in cooperation with over 30 artists from Austria and abroad.