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on
tuesday 8th of august 2000 a new neil curtis exhibition will hit vienna: in the
location of the viennese "café willendorf" he will start his exhibition sofa
session. the "star" of the new project is his own living room sofa and a handful
of young gay and lesbian people...
the pictures were originally shot for the project "recht beweglich" (right/rather flexible) and are used to promote the project by showing young gay and lesbian people on a sofa. "I didn't want to invent difficult unreal artificial situations to show gay people", curtis explains. he even refused to shake his camera "the camera always shows the same: the sofa, a background and the people". if you now think the result might be a boring series of people sitting on a sofa, you are wrong: the result is a story of love, hate and disappointment. the first art soap opera, so to say.
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printable pictures of neil curtis. |
the
exhibition starts with the sentences "the blank sofa is a metaphor. imagine yourself
sitting on it. how does it feel?" but in curtis own words the exhibition is not
really an exhibition, but the attempt of creating the "first art soap opera"
– based on art pictures. and of course this exhibition is different: "you have
to walk through the whole room to read know the full plot". and this plot is actually
a mixture of things to think about, about life, people, and especially finding the right
person in life. 
