#Collage franz west how to
Dealing with contemporary art had limits, and I didn’t know how to get into that business. One would have to deal mainly with antiques, and that didn’t interest me. But that didn’t work out because in Vienna, and certainly in Austria, there was too little need for it. I have become an artist but actually I wanted to be an art dealer. You look at your own things to correct them. By now I have a large number of things by other people standing around at home.
One shouldn’t do that, you need someone else to do it. That is like an artist taking pleasure in his own work. Looking at my own things is like being a pig … they eat pork, I think. I like looking at other things, by other artists. You make the work and have no chance to look at it properly any more. The fluctuations are getting faster and faster. That is even worse, when everything goes on hanging around after you have finished it. It used to be that everything remained left over, nothing went. It’s an unpleasant procedure, but on the other hand it is also lucky. Now it is gloomy, because everything has gone. When something has just been finished it looks lively, and I am glad to be here. All the works have just been taken away and in my studio it looks rather depressing and bleak. Right now I have a problem, so this is a good moment to have a conversation because it’s a moment of crisis. It comes back to me only when I have already done it, when I have repeated myself. While I am working I never remember exactly what has already happened and every time I forget what I should have remembered. For example, you turn the sculpture again and again while you paint and you have a flat surface and the advantage that something is also going on at the same time on the other side. The reason I see your sculptures as three-dimensional paintings is that the painting process and the result have all the attributes of painting about them. In my case the paint application is more or less independent of the place where it is applied, so to that extent it is not painted in the traditional sense. In a human representation, the cheeks are painted pink, not green. Normally with sculptures it is a matter of certain parts just being emphasised with paint. I don’t think you can say they are pictures.
Early sculpture was always painted, Gothic or Baroque or whatever you like … everything was always painted. Oh well, if you paint the same thing onto a two-dimensional surface, it’s nothing. With thanks to the Austrian Cultural Forum, Gagosian Gallery, London, Eva Presenhuber and Juana De Aizpuru.Painted sculpture has a very long history, but your sculptures don’t have much to do with that, in my view: they are more like three-dimensional paintings. This exhibition was made possible with the support of The Henry Moore Foundation.
His offer of participation also extends to other artists - Martin Kippenberger, Michelangelo Pistoletto and Wolfgang Tillmans have all contributed to West's subversive, sociable and aesthetically challenging vision. West has also become famous for the furniture-sculpture he has been making since the 1980s, inviting us to lie on his couches to relax, socialise and become transformed into artist's model, psychiatrist's patient and work of art. In a playful critique of consumer culture, he paints over these advertisements to isolate images and highlight their absurdity. These meteorite-like shapes, splattered with intense high gloss colour seem to express pure neurosis.įranz West is fascinated by images in glossy magazines and the allure of soft-porn and the motor industry. West also takes everyday objects and carefully bandages them with papier-mâché until they metamorphose into bizarre new forms.
#Collage franz west series
West gives form to attitudes through a series of plaster body parts or off-the-peg performance props, forcing the body into poses which are part hilarious, part agonised. The Whitechapel brings together the first major survey of Franz West in Britain, with works from the last 30 years, that are by turns erotic, philosophical and immensely sociable.įranz West's forefathers are the Viennese Actionists - 1960s performance artists who used the body to trigger cathartic experiences. Using brightly-coloured aluminium, papier-mâché or collage, West creates images and situations bordering on the taboo. Franz West - Franzwestite: works 1973-2003 - Whitechapel Art Gallery, GB-LondonĬan an object be sociable? When is a sculpture also a painting? Is it possible to express the unconscious as a piece of furniture? Franz West's experimental sculpture, furniture and objects fuse Freud with form, sculpture with painting.
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