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This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast remembers Austrian artist Franz West, who died two weeks ago at age 65. West was one of European art’s most Puckish innovators. His art was playful and sly — he often encouraged viewers to pick up and play with or to sit down on his work — but it was also deeply rooted in the intellectual history of Vienna, his lifelong hometown.
One of my favorite Wests is The Thing Itself (Selbiges), a 1987 sculpture that that’s somewhat similar to Usain Bolt’s victory pose.
Joining me to discuss West’s life and work — and his uncomfortable couch-cum-sculptures — is Darsie Alexander, the chief curator at the Walker Art Center. In 2008 Alexander curated West’s only American retrospective, which opened at the Baltimore Museum of Art and traveled to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
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The 350-year-old Tuileries is the elegant central garden of Paris. Franz West, who had a wicked sense of humor, gave it two squiggly turds.
This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast remembers Austrian artist Franz West, who died two weeks ago at age 65. West was one of European art’s most Puckish innovators. His art was playful and sly — he often encouraged viewers to pick up and play with or to sit down on his work — but it was also deeply rooted in the intellectual history of Vienna, his lifelong hometown.
Joining me to discuss West’s life and work — and his uncomfortable couch-cum-sculptures — is Darsie Alexander, the chief curator at the Walker Art Center. In 2008 Alexander curated West’s only American retrospective, which opened at the Baltimore Museum of Art and traveled to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
To download the program directly to your PC/mobile device, click here. Subscribe to The Modern Art Notes Podcast via iTunes or RSS. See images of artworks discussed on the program.
Image: A 2009 Franz West installation at the Tuileries garden, Paris.
This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast remembers Austrian artist Franz West, who died two weeks ago at age 65. West was one of European art’s most Puckish innovators. His art was playful and sly — he often encouraged viewers to pick up and play with or to sit down on his work — but it was also deeply rooted in the intellectual history of Vienna, his lifelong hometown.
Vienna is also the hometown of Sigmund Freud… and what could be more Freud-referencing than a couch, and an uncomfortable one to boot?
Joining me to discuss West’s life and work — and his uncomfortable couch-cum-sculptures — is Darsie Alexander, the chief curator at the Walker Art Center. In 2008 Alexander curated West’s only American retrospective, which opened at the Baltimore Museum of Art and traveled to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
To download the program directly to your PC/mobile device, click here. Subscribe to The Modern Art Notes Podcast via iTunes or RSS. See images of artworks discussed on the program.
Image: Franz West, Leige, 1989.
This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast remembers Austrian artist Franz West, who died two weeks ago at age 65. West was one of European art’s most Puckish innovators. His art was playful and sly — he often encouraged viewers to pick up and play with or to sit down on his work — but it was also deeply rooted in the intellectual history of Vienna, his lifelong hometown.
Here’s a great example of a work built around West’s Adaptives, the art objects that he encouraged viewers to not just look at, but to play with. This is the interior of West’s Mirror in the Cabinet with Adaptives, a work he made with Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto. West’s idea was that gallery-goers would walk into the space, play with the Adaptives to their heart’s content and that their ‘performance’ would be shown on the television outside the cabinet, thus changing the very idea of who was really making the art or performing, and what an artwork could be. (This morning I featured an external view. See MANPodcast.com.)
Joining me to discuss West’s life and work is Darsie Alexander, the chief curator at the Walker Art Center. In 2008 Alexander curated West’s only American retrospective, which opened at the Baltimore Museum of Art and traveled to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
To download the program directly to your PC/mobile device, click here. Subscribe to The Modern Art Notes Podcast via iTunes or RSS. See images of artworks discussed on the program.
This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast remembers Austrian artist Franz West, who died two weeks ago at age 65. West was one of European art’s most Puckish innovators. His art was playful and sly — he often encouraged viewers to pick up and play with or to sit down on his work — but it was also deeply rooted in the intellectual history of Vienna, his lifelong hometown.
Here’s a great example of a work built around West’s Adaptives, the art objects that he encouraged viewers to not just look at, but to play with. This is West’s Mirror in the Cabinet with Adaptives, a work he made with Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto. (This installation of the piece was at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 1996.) West’s idea was that gallery-goers would walk into the space, play with the Adaptives to their heart’s content and that their ‘performance’ would be shown on the television outside the cabinet, thus changing the very idea of who was really making the art or performing, and what an artwork could be. (Later on today MANPodcast will feature a photograph from inside the cabinet.)
Joining me to discuss West’s life and work is Darsie Alexander, the chief curator at the Walker Art Center. In 2008 Alexander curated West’s only American retrospective, which opened at the Baltimore Museum of Art and traveled to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
To download the program directly to your PC/mobile device, click here. Subscribe to The Modern Art Notes Podcast via iTunes or RSS. See images of artworks discussed on the program.
This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast remembers Austrian artist Franz West, who died two weeks ago at age 65. West was one of European art’s most Puckish innovators. His art was playful and sly — he often encouraged viewers to pick up and play with or to sit down on his work — but it was also deeply rooted in the intellectual history of Vienna, his lifelong hometown. No artist was more important to Klimt than Gustav Klimt, whose obsession with the body, women, sensuality, sex, and (ideally) the combination of all four was the subject of this early, foundational West titled Chez Klimt (1972).
Joining me to discuss West’s life and work (and Chez Klimt) is Darsie Alexander, the chief curator at the Walker Art Center. In 2008 Alexander curated West’s only American retrospective, which opened at the Baltimore Museum of Art and traveled to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
In the second segment, artists Steve Roden and Stephen Vitiello join me to discuss their recent collaboration in Houston. In association with the exhibition “Silence,” in which both artists are represented and which is on view at The Menil Collection through, Roden and Vitiello performed a sound piece at The Rothko Chapel. Roden and Vitiello have also provided an extended audio clip from their improvised performance, The Spaces Contained in Each.
To download the program directly to your PC/mobile device, click here. Subscribe to The Modern Art Notes Podcast via iTunes or RSS. See images of artworks discussed on the program.
