/internal/media/dispatcher/43565/full[Portraits And Sausage]2006[Marcus Geiger]Marcus GeigerWood, needle felting, mens shoes, various stuffingThe Secession has been a recurrent concern in Marcus Geiger’s oeuvre: in 1922, he pulled a black pom-pom hat over the golden dome; six years later, he coated the building’s façade with red paint; and in the sprawling installation “Portraits and Sausage,” he reproduced the iconic group portrait of the institution’s founding fathers. In the historic photograph, the seven artists pose around a large sausage-shaped roll of fabric. For his own version of the scene, Geiger manufactured figures modeled on representatives of the contemporary art world and clad in needle felting. The reenactment may be read as an ironic comment about the protagonists of today’s arts scene.Object art© Marcus Geigerhttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/18708/rdf