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a multiple media the Polish artist has established a rich sculptural oeuvre, focusing on portraits that are often plastiline and human hair. Working in collaboration with his father’s plastics manufacturing company, plastic before attaching them to bodies composed of extruded plastic ribbons. Althamer, who created “it is a major achievement to realize that the body is only a vehicle for the soul.”
’s “Apollo’s Ecstasy” implicating the art space, his artwork pushed the boundaries of the traditional white cube. Walter Angeles. In the Biennale’s catalogue the curator geometry. Like all works by this legendary artist, this abstract sculpture is the result of complex numerological calculations, a self-contained system in which the endless possibilities of the imagination are reduced to an extreme synthesis.”
’s bizarre are awaiting the visitor in the Arsenale. About his works the US based artist explains: “The human body is the formal frame into which I throw all my magic. I subject it to all kinds of formal shocks: ornamentation, fracture, excavation, erosion, dissection. But whatever I do, the gamut of testing they may have run is only to bring out the character, the face of survival, the whole surface of a landscape, and ultimately, a feeling of love and empathy.”
’s message in one of his bronze reliefs in the Indonesian Pavillon. The artist joins with an installation, a kind of storyboard, where the stories are like sections of the greater life- narrative. The theme of Sakti, the Sanskrit meaning of transformative energy, was picked up by the of the pavilion suggests an embrace of traditional and contemporary forms. Entang Wiharso mixed up the past with the contemporary, the imaginative and the real. In his bronze reliefs he is inspired by his own life, Javanese myths and legends, as well as the Candi reliefs. Traditional and popular iconography, social and historical stories are interwoven in surrealistic imageries.
About the Author: Dr. Barbara Aust-Wegemund, born in Zuerich/ Switzerland, is a German Art Historian and Managing Director at Art History Consulting (AHC). She studied Art History at Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel (Germany), University for Foreigners Perugia (Italy) and London Guildhall University (UK). In 2002 she received her PHD from University of Kiel with a Dissertation on the British sculptor Henry Moore. As an art critic and expert on contemporary art, she has published many essays and articles in the Editorial Department at Goethe Institutes Inc.
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