2004 These subvert our understood notion of a window looking out onto the world – here they look back, observing the viewer, turning the voyeur into the view. Isa Genzken Farquharson, Alex ; Diederichsen, Diedrich ; Breitwieser, Sabine. Isa Genzken (born 27 November 1948 in Bad Oldesloe, Schleswig-Holstein) is a German contemporary artist who lives and works in Berlin.
The base of the sculpture also serves as a bench or resting place, allowing the participant to stop a moment and look, an often-forgotten activity in today’s fast paced society. Her primary media are sculpture and installation, using a wide variety of materials, including concrete, plaster, wood and textile. 2008
1948) is arguably one of the most important and influential female artists of the past 30 years. Isa Genzken Isa Genzken, née le 27 novembre 1948 à Bad Oldesloe est une artiste allemande [1], qui vit et travaille à Berlin.
Whereas Genzken’s Camera (1990), a private commission positioned on the fifth-floor balcony of an apartment in Brussels, balances precariously framing and capturing a magnificent view, as a camera might do, but as the view is already present the work serves to highlight the absurd.The exhibition at Savile Row displays how Genzken alters objects and locations with seemingly simple additions or subtractions that are both humorous and subversive, so that witty metaphors arise from the canniest of means, whether these are an airline window or mirror. Oscillating between construction and destruction, it exists somewhere between fragmented ruin and autonomous space, appraising the lasting influence of modern architecture and its social and cultural implications, while paving the way for the ‘Fenster’ series that would follow. See available sculpture, paintings, and prints and multiples for sale and learn about the artist. à Londres (Royaume-Uni) © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2016 Buchloh and Gerhard Richter.
Isa Genzken. Isa Genzken is a contemporary German artist. [1] Vietmeier, Melanie: ‘Everybody Needs at Least One Window: Isa Genzken’s Window Sculptures’, in: ‘Fresh widow: the window in art since Matisse and Duchamp’, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, 2012, pp. Genzken’s immersive environment expands on the themes of travel, through elements of an aircraft cabin, and the window as a juncture between interior and exterior spaces. Isa Genzken (German, b. Depuis plus de trente ans, Isa Genzken développe une œuvre aux multiples facettes, incluant une large variété de médiums et d’approches qui la conduit de formes minimales sophistiquées à la profusion d’assemblages hybrides et bricolés. Isa Genzken, 2015. Harvesting, fusing and re-constructing references from myriad sources, she takes an anything-goes approach to the materials she uses to convey multiple meanings in unexpected ways. In order to share a safe and positive experience, we ask that you book a timed reservation to visit our current...Isa Genzken has long been considered one of Germany’s most important and influential contemporary artists.
2007 Breitwieser, Sabine ; Hoptman, Laura ; Darling, Michael... [et al.]. For Genzken, travel is positive experience which presents the opportunity to view the world from new perspectives. Hanging from the walls of the gallery Genzken has placed fifteen airplane windows, displayed as if they were paintings, yet they are strangely reminiscent of eyes, the blinds like eyelids open, half open or completely closed.
Isa Genzken has long been considered one of Germany’s most important and influential contemporary artists. Since the 1970s, Genzken’s multifaceted practice has encompassed sculpture, photography, found-object installation, film, drawing and painting. In this respect, it reveals the artist’s interest in architecture and light, a topic of enduring resonance in her work as seen in the landmark exhibition in Chicago in 1992, ‘Everybody Needs at Least One Window’.Isa Genzken has long been considered one of Germany’s most important and influential contemporary artists.
À partir de 1997, son travail d’assemblage, pour partie traduction fantasmée du contexte urbain et social, trouve sa source dans une appropriation Pop d’objets de consommation qui libère formes et couleurs. Utilisant très tôt l’ordinateur pour créer ses premières sculptures, elle revient dans les années 1980 à un contact direct avec le matériau, d’abord le plâtre, puis le béton brut, la résine translucide colorée, et enfin le miroir, concevant des formes élancées se référant à l’architecture moderniste.
Buchloh and Gerhard Richter.
Born in Bad Oldesloe, Germany, Genzken studied at the renowned Kunstakademie Düsseldorf whose faculty at the time included Joseph Beuys, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Benjamin H.D. Please visit our location page to plan your visit.‘Window’ is an exhibition at our London gallery by Isa Genzken featuring a new and unseen body of work. Biographie. Since the...The Possibilities of Sculpture: Sabine Breitwieser on Isa Genzken Using insubstantial commercial materials to depict what seems indestructible, Isa Genzken’s sculptures explore the tension between permanence and transience. Né en 1960,