{"id":563,"date":"2021-10-25T13:36:34","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T18:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dieresis.com\/franz-west-austria-1947\/"},"modified":"2021-10-25T13:36:34","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T18:36:34","slug":"franz-west-austria-1947","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dieresis.com\/en\/franz-west-austria-1947\/","title":{"rendered":"Franz West (Austria, 1947)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Franz West (Austria, 1947)<\/h4>

West\u2019s art is always participatory, seeking to enter into dialogue with its recipients and considering their various reactions as necessary to the completion of the meaning of the work. West\u2019s Adaptives and furniture pieces invite active physical use, while in the case of other sculptures and works on paper, dialogue is intended to take place on an intellectual level, stimulated by the works\u2019 titles, as well as by accompanying texts. Playful and ambiguous, West\u2019s work is also deeply rooted in his involvement with philosophy and psychoanalysis, particularly the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 \u2013 1951) and Sigmund Freud (1856 \u2013 1939). In the 1990s, the artist\u2019s work was presented at the Austrian Pavilion of the 44th Venice Biennale (1990);documenta IX, Kassel (1992); The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Dia Center for the Arts, New York (both 1994); Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (Carnegie International, 1995); Villa Arson, Nice (1995-96); and the St\u00e4dtisches Museum Abteiberg, M\u00f6nchengladbach (1996). A major, mid-career retrospective (Franz West, Proforma) was organized by the Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna in 1996 (it traveled to the Kunsthalle Basel; Rijksmuseum Kr\u00f6ller-M\u00fcller, Otterlo; N\u00e1rondi galerie Praze\/Sbirka moderniho umeni Veltrzni pal\u00e1c, Prague; Muzeum Sztuki w Lodzi, Lodz); and solo exhibitions were held at the Kunstverein Hamburg (1996); FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Funda\u00e7\u00e3o de Serralves, Porto (all 1997). West participated in documenta X, Kassel; and the Rooseum, Centre for Contemporary Art, Malm\u00f6, presented a solo exhibition of his work in 1999. The artist\u2019s work was featured at The Renaissance Society, Chicago (2000), and Museum f\u00fcr Neue Kunst, ZKM Karlsruhe and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sof\u00eda, Madrid presented the traveling survey Franz West: In & Out (2000-2001).<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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