Format:
184 S.
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zahlr. Ill.
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27 cm
ISBN:
9783864421204
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3864421209
Content:
Lamps, furniture, bicycles, letter presses, museum pedestals: Mathieu Mercier's artistic output moves back and forth in a masterly manner between the categories of art and everyday culture. Situated within the dynamic field of architecture, design, and the visual arts, it reflects upon the fundamental ideas of Western culture in the twentieth century, especially the concept of Modernism.0 0Again and again, he refers back to the artistic avant-garde, to heroes such as Marcel Duchamp or Piet Mondrian, and establishes connections with their gestures and pictorial inventions by means of deliberate displacements of apparently ordinary objects from the contemporary world. In a permanent exchange between high and low, Mercier enigmatically poses the question as to the status of objects oscillating between functionality and artistic freedom from practical utilization when, for example, he takes pipes intended for construction purposes and converts them into benches, or transforms sporting equipment into monstrous light fixtures. 0Exhibition: Villa Merker Galerien der Stadt Esslingen am Neckar, Germany (13.12.2014-22.02.2015)
Note:
Text dt., engl. und franz
Language:
English
Subjects:
Art History
Keywords:
Mercier, Mathieu 1970-
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Ausstellungskatalog
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Ausstellungskatalog
Author information:
Mercier, Mathieu 1970-
Author information:
Baur, Andreas 1958-
Author information:
Bitterli, Konrad 1960-
Author information:
Chênel, Marie
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