Curator’s selection from G V collection.
Germany, born in 1972. Lives and works in Los Angeles
Headcleaner Headhunter
2009
Bronze
114 x 119 x 99 cm
Sterling Ruby is a contemporary American artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. He takes his subject matter from a wide range of sources, including marginalized societies, maximum security prisons, modernist architecture, artefacts and antiquities, graffiti, the mechanisms of warfare, and urban gangs. His work has often been cited as invoking minimalism as a means to expose underlying systems and social power structures. The outdoor work „Headcleaner Headhunter“ is casted in bronze and shows somekind of helmet. It can be seen in the context of street culture in general and the world of the skateborders in specific.
Curator’s selection from G V collection.
Mexican, born in 1967. Lives and works in Berlin
Being I
Copper sheet, high density polystyrene
Tower: 400 x 90 cm (Ø)
2 Disks: 5 x 90 cm (Ø)
Ortega’s sculptures and installations are a critical comment on the development of modern society.
Living and working in Mexico-city and Berlin, the artist questions the functionality of everyday objects. By very simple means Ortega creates a maximum of effect.
Being I” not only refers to the importance of copper 2007 in today’s industries, it also critises the child labour which goes along with it. The sculpture is made as a popular children’s toy.
Curator’s selection from G V collection.
German, born in 1979. Lives and works in Berlin.
Zycles 6021
2009
Inkjet print on canvas
236 x 236 cm
Ruff belongs to the famous German Becker-school of Photography, together with artists such as Andreas Gursky, Thomas Struth and Candida Höfer. In his pictures he confronts us with unusual use of the photographic medium. These experiments have a scientific background and Ruff loves to confront art with new technologies.
The image on this photo finds its origin within the field of electromagnetism. The lines are the result of a trans-figuration of a numerological system, by means of a special computer program. The photographiclandscapecan be seen as a virtual reality.
Curator’s selection from G V collection.
Argentina, born in 1973. Lives and works in Frankfurt and Main
Not Yet Titled
2010
Solar foil, iridescent foil, plastic
137,2 x 137,2 x 106,7 cm
Thomas Saraceno studied architecture in Argentina, before he became a student at the Städelschule in Frankfurt/Main. He is fascinated by the alternative use of living space in such a way that he critically questions how the traditional use of common architecture can still work nowadays. These experiments are visualized in hanging and floating models. Once enlarged, they can be used as walkable forms. Roughly speaking: Thomas Saraceno is a contemporary visionary. His vision, which he characterizes as „airport city“ or „cloud city“, evolves from his belief that gravitation, as we know it today, won’t exist in the future any more.
Curator’s selection from G V collection.
Poland, born in 1972. Lives and works in Warsaw
Untitled
2012
painted black steel, red pvc canvas
210 x 100 x 275 cm
In her work Soswnowska treats space as a medium for her works, always designing projects to fit into a specific space. Often she modifies pre-existent architecture, transforming the physical space into mental space and playing with the viewer’s perceptions.
She has explained: ‘I am especially interested in the moments when architectural space begins to take on the characteristics of mental space’.
She has been considered as one of the most important sculpting artist of her generation. She began to create works that played with both two-dimensional painting and three-dimensional space, finally giving up the canvas altogether and instead using the space itself as a sort of 3-D painting.
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