Franz Erhard Walther

Description

Tent. Brussel, WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, 21-02-2014, 11-05-2014 ; Bordeaux, Musée d'art contemporain (CAPC), 13-11-2014, 15-03-2015. - Monografie toont een breed overzicht van het werk van de Duitse kunstenaar Franz Erhard Walther. Publicatie bevat tevens 5 pop-up's met objecten van Walther. - Walther's exhibition offers an in-depth look at an influential German artist whose pioneering work straddles minimalist sculpture, conceptual art, abstract painting, and performance all while positing fundamental questions about the conventional idea of the artwork as an immutable, obdurate pedestalor wall-bound thing. Bringing together pivotal works made between the 1950s and the present, this exhibition focuses on Walther's ability to transform notions of objecthood and perception through drawings, paintings, fabric sculptures, participatory forms, languagebased works, photographic documentation and archival material. The show at WIELS, the first for the artist in Belgium and one of the larger of his solo exhibitions to date, will underscore the essential tension provoked by Walther's work and the ways it thinks about what and artwork can do, or what can be done with it as opposed to how merely it appears or what it is. The show will trace this tension via a sweeping panorama of the artist's production, including more than one hundred works, while also drawing attention to the artist's relationship to documentation, both photographic and drawn, and his fundamental conception of the exhibition itself as a platform for social action. It will include numerous objects to be manipulated in the exhibition and will be animated by several workshops and work demonstrations led by the artist