Franz West: White Elephant
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| Rating | : | 4.44 (505 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 8492480807 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 64 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-13 |
| Language | : | English, Spanish |
DESCRIPTION:
At the age of 14, West--living in bombed-out, post-Nazi Vienna--attended an event organized by the Viennese Actionists, at which Hermann Nitsch smashed a lamb cadaver against the wall of a basement room in a tenement building: "it was incredibly shocking and really depressing," West said. His own art over the past four decades has eschewed such nihilism: his Adaptives, which he has described as "neuroses made material" (with a nod to Darwin as well), are sculptural objects for viewers to engage physically, using them as ungainly temporary prostheses, appliances, accessories, and instruction
His earliest sculptures, performances, and collages were a reaction to this movement, in which artists engaged in displays of radical public behaviour and physical endurance meant to shake up art-world passivity. His art has been exhibited extensively in Europe and the Americas, including shows at the Dia Center for the Art
His earliest sculptures, performances, and collages were a reaction to this movement, in which artists engaged in displays of radical public behaviour and physical endurance meant to shake up art-world passivity. West began his career in Vienna in the mid-1960s when a local movement called Actionism was in full swing. . About the Author Franz West was born in 1947 in Vienna, Austria, where he still lives and works. In the early 1970s, West began making a series of small portable sculptures called adaptives.A" He has the ability to make comfortable and colourfully upholstered couches and chairs which transform galleries, museums, and public spaces into lounge-like, sociable environments for viewing