DESIGN MIAMI/ BASEL 2024
Opening June 10, 2024
Preview Days June 10 – 16, 2024
Public Days June 13 – 16, 2024
Galerie Eva Presenhuber is pleased to present a single booth of furniture works by Franz West at Design Miami/ Basel 2024.
In the mid-70s, Franz West began rejecting the traditionally passive way of experiencing art and started making what he called Passstücke (Adaptives). Exhibition visitors were encouraged to pick these up and carry them around. West’s furniture is a further development of this earlier work. Taking a sculptural approach to chairs, tables, upholstered furniture, coat racks, and bookshelves, West placed them in relation to his concept of sculpture through a variety of corporeal attitudes and tactile responses. By questioning the utility of art as well as our physical and psychological relationship to it, West challenged the way art is experienced and defined, and thereby positing an interpretation of furniture as both sculpture and social experience. Furniture sculptures play a central role in West’s oeuvre and are often an essential part of his installations.
The collaboration between Franz West and Eva Presenhuber began nearly 30 years ago in Zurich, where West exhibited for the first time at Galerie Walcheturm, then owned by Presenhuber. This initial collaboration led to a series of subsequent gallery exhibitions during his lifetime and following West's passing in 2012.
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