Format:
192 Seiten
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1 Erratum
ISBN:
9491843893
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9789491843891
Series Statement:
Roma publication 293
Content:
The artists Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys have been collaborating for 30 years. Together, they continue to spawn a legion of videos, drawings, sculptures, installations, performances, and photographs. These materials offer the artists vehicles, which they populate with humans and their stand-ins ? stupefied family members, hysterical puppets, anthropomorphized objects. Some of these characters are friends, or intermediaries that serve in their place. Others are the derelict occupants of a ?parallel world? that goes unrecognized by most, despite its being inexorably entangled with the world most of us identify.00Sometimes their work is perplexing, but the hushed laughter it elicits is tuned to a rather dark station. After all, or overall, the artists wallow in the most depressing of cultural trenches, in the most vile historical quagmires and, when they emerge ? indelibly soiled in the moribund and strange aspects of humanity, its absurd technological prosthetics, ist endless neuroses and traumas ? they wring it out and give it a frozen form, a more appropriately awkward posture.00Exhibition: Kunstverein München, Germany (22.04. - 25.06.2017)
Note:
Text deutsch und englisch
Language:
English
Subjects:
Art History
Keywords:
De Gruyter, Jos 1965-
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Thys, Harald 1966-
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Zeichnung
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Plastik
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Ausstellungskatalog
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Bildband
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Verkaufskatalog
Author information:
Thys, Harald 1966-
Author information:
De Gruyter, Jos 1965-
