Alicja Kwade
20 Jun - 24 Aug 2008
Alicja Kwade, Kohle (Union 666), 2008, UNION-Kohle-Brikett, Blattgold 24 Karat, 666tlg., je 18 x 5 x 5 cm, in 15 Blöcken, hoch 45, breit 18, tief 20 cm, Installation, Gesamtgröße variabel, Galerie Lena Brüning © Alicja Kwade, Foto: Roman März
Werkraum 25
ALICJA KWADE.
PIEPENBROCK PRICE FOR SCULPTURE 2008
20 June - 24 August 2008
The artist Alicja Kwade, this year's winner of the Piepenbrock Price for Sculpture, works in a multi-faceted and original way, employing a number of different media (installation, sculpture, photography, video) and materials. Her art work makes use of classic sculpture materials as well as of objects of everyday usage, distorted to rip them out of their usual context and meaning. Coal briquets are turned into gold barrels, pebbles into precious stones, pavement stones into diamonds. In doing so, Alicja Kwade poses questions of auhtenticity and value, perception and classification. Over and again, she engages with matters of physics, such as the representation of the visible and the invisible. At the same time, her art combines science with poetry and playfulness.
Made possible by the Piepenbrock Unternehmensgruppe and Museum & Location.
ALICJA KWADE.
PIEPENBROCK PRICE FOR SCULPTURE 2008
20 June - 24 August 2008
The artist Alicja Kwade, this year's winner of the Piepenbrock Price for Sculpture, works in a multi-faceted and original way, employing a number of different media (installation, sculpture, photography, video) and materials. Her art work makes use of classic sculpture materials as well as of objects of everyday usage, distorted to rip them out of their usual context and meaning. Coal briquets are turned into gold barrels, pebbles into precious stones, pavement stones into diamonds. In doing so, Alicja Kwade poses questions of auhtenticity and value, perception and classification. Over and again, she engages with matters of physics, such as the representation of the visible and the invisible. At the same time, her art combines science with poetry and playfulness.
Made possible by the Piepenbrock Unternehmensgruppe and Museum & Location.