![]() A major, mid-career retrospective ( Franz West. The 1990s brought widespread international recognition, and the artist’s work was presented in numerous prestigious venues worldwide including the Austrian Pavilion of the 44th Venice Biennale (1990) documenta IX, Kassel (1992) The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1994) Dia Center for the Arts, New York (1994) Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh ( Carnegie International, 1995) Villa Arson, Nice (1995-1996) and the Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach (1996). He began exhibiting his work in the 1970s in Austria and Germany and gained recognition across Europe in the 1980s, with significant shows at such venues as Kunsthaus Zürich (1985), the Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz (1986) Wiener Secession, Vienna (1986) Skulptur Projekte Münster (1987) Kunsthalle Bern (1988) Portikus, Frankfurt (1988) Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld (1989) and the Institute for Contemporary Art, P.S.1, Long Island City, New York (1989). ![]() West studied at the Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna from 1977 to 1982. By playfully manipulating everyday materials and imagery in novel ways, he created objects that serve to redefine art as a social experience, calling attention to the way in which art is presented to the public, and how viewers interact with works of art and with each other. While he was known primarily as a sculptor, his body of work incorporated drawing, collage, video, and installation, using papier-mâché, furniture, cardboard, plaster, found imagery, and other diverse materials. ![]() ![]() Emerging in the early 1970s, Austrian-born artist Franz West (1947-2012) developed a unique aesthetic that engaged equally high and low reference points and often privileged social interaction as an intrinsic component of his work. ![]()
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