Franz West

by Fleck, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780714838250
• ISBN10: 071483825X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-04-29
• Publisher: Phaidon Press

Summary

"Over the last thirty years, the Viennese artist Franz West has marked out his own unique territory in the field of art by developing new modalities of "pre-semblance" for sculpture ambiance and design. Beginning with "Adaptives" in the seventies and continuing through furniture ensembles in the eighties and outdoor sculptures in the nineties, he has continued to set the art world on edge with his inspirations and strange scenarios which offer surprising solutions to the traditional social utopia of a melding of art and life."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Robert Fleck is Director of the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg. He has been working as an art critic and curator since 1981. From 1991–93 he was the Federal Curator for Austrian contemporary art, and in 1998 he co-curated Manifesta 2. From 2000–03 he was Director of ERBAN Fine Art School in Nantes. His books include Die Mühl-Kommune (2003) and Yves Klein (2004). 

Bice Curiger is Curator at Kunsthaus Zurich and the co-founder and Editor in Chief of Parkett. She wrote the definitive monograph Meret Oppenheim, A Retrospective (1989).

Neal Benezra is Director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He has written extensively on contemporary German sculpture for art journals such as Flash Art and Parkett.

Table of Contents

Interview
Bice Curiger
Bice Curiger in conversation with Franz West	6	(16)
Survey
Sex and the Modern Sculptor	22	(60)
Robert Fleck
Focus
Of Pissoirs and Public Seating: Etude de couleur and Franz West's Public Art	82	(12)
Neal Benezra
Artist's Choice
Prostitutes (extract), 1993	94	(10)
Kathryn Norberg
Artist's Writings
Redundanz (Redundancy), 1986	104	(1)
Franz West
PA 1, 1990	105	(1)
3 or 17-Adaptive with Seventeen Pedestals, 1992	106	(2)
A Conversation between Kasper Konig and Franz West, 1992	108	(10)
Hirn mit Ei (Wiener Kuche) [Brain with Egg (Viennese Cuisine)], 1994	118	(2)
A Drawn-out Question: On Bruno Gironcoli, 1997	120	(4)
On Public Works, Interview with Menno Meewis, 1998	124	(8)
The Internet Bed, Interview with Sofia Fan, 1998	132	(2)
But Where's the Predicate?, 1998	134	(10)
Chronology	144	(15)
Bibliography	159	(1)
List of Illustrations	159