If you’re in Zurich in December, please check out the following exhibition at White Space inspired in part by Cabinet’s “Mountains” issue.

Sunday, December 2, 2007, 4 PM
Participating artists: Stefan Burger, Peter Böhnisch, Gregor Hildebrandt, Huber.Huber, Ruediger John, Patrizia Karda, Alicja Kwada, Wolfgang Lugmair, Elodie Pong, Roland Schappert.

Saturday, December 8, 2007, 6PM
Andreas Helbling, solo installation

Here is a statement from the curators about the exhibition:

More than the topographic elevation in the landscape, it is the ups and downs of the stock market, diagrams of acquisitions and sales, as well as political high and low points that seem to move people. That is to say that today, like in Petrarch’s time, mountain climbing for climbing's sake holds the promise of bliss and the enchantment of success for only a few people. On the other hand, the quiet contemplation of the phenomenon of mountains from afar remains connected for most of us with a sensation of longing and fulfillment: Countless stories have been told and many a text wrapped around them; facts have been laid out and arguments made. Wherever mountains are located, in the flatlands or in the Alps, in our heads or on our desks, we always want to vanquish, pervade, transfer, or translate them, this being closely knit with a dread of failure and the paradoxical hunger for the next, higher peak, not least to get better, clearer views. What we cannot subject to this desire, we lift up into numinous spheres or elegize and turn away from.

This program is Part 1 of an ongoing exhibition, intervention, and research series on the topic of mountains as social fantasy, economical challenge, and individual reality inspired by Cabinet’s issue on “Mountains.”

Cabinet magazine is available in small numbers at White Space, Zurich