Haaans
Hans Schabus
Hans Schabus
Haaans, 2008/2009
Various offset prints on paper, a pile of magazines
189 x 131 x 6 cm (framed)
TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection
Installation view: “Is it the River?”, Galleria ZERO…, Milan, Italy, 2009
Photo: Jacopo Menzani | | Courtesy the artist | ZERO…| © VEGAP, Madrid, 2026
- Date
- 2013
- Medium
- Various offset prints on paper, framed and a pile of magazines
- Dimension
- 189 x 131 x 6 cm
- Credit
TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection
- This artwork is part of the donation and long-term loan from TBA21 to the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza.
Details
Produced for an advertising campaign for the Tanzquartier Vienna in 2008/09, under the motto “OPEN UP!”, the individual pages of Haaans were printed and distributed in Viennese newspapers and magazines over the course of two months. Inviting the audience to “go on a research trip” through the collection of the individual pages, Schabus challenges viewers to establish their own relationship with the media representation of the body. Not to be confused with fan collectibles, the individual images interfere with the traditional interpretation of advertising imagery by challenging the convention of a uniform, mediated object. As a whole, the images make up a portrait of the artist’s face that is the same height as his body. As individual pages they are unique: even though the newspapers and magazines received the same graphic files due to variances in printing methods and ink the components result in a heterogeneous media assemblage.
—Alicia Reuter
