In this colour photograph, an office table with objects on it can be seen. The complete ensemble is made of paper. The objects are a typewriter, a black, narrow folder with documents on it, a stack of books in different colours and sizes, an orange-yellow cup with a spoon in it, paper, notebooks, an empty box of tissues and a small box of paper clips.

Sammlung Goetz

Sculptural Sphere

March 6 – September 12, 2004

The works in the exhibition Sculptural Sphere go far beyond the framework of the traditional concept of sculpture. Due to the diverse media used for them, they reference socio-political reality that goes far beyond questions inherent to art.

With Martin Boyce, Thomas Demand, Mark Manders, Manfred Pernice, Liisa Roberts and Tom Sachs.

"Sculptures fascinate me", says Ingvild Goetz. “Some artists – like Donald Judd – work exclusively in a formal context. In this case I am interested in the aesthetics and the formal or logical rigor. Other artists, in contrast, link formal aspects to content-based connotations and narrative contexts expressed by the object. The viewer may notice these at the outset or due to associations – or completely subjectively, free of any information that the artist may provide.” This second group contains works by Martin Boyce, Thomas Demand, Mark Manders, Manfred Pernice, Liisa Roberts and Tom Sachs, who are all included in the exhibition Sculptural Sphere. Significantly, not all of these are sculptors, but also artists who integrate sculptural questions with other media. With over 60 artworks, the exhibition conveys Ingvild Goetz's view of current tendencies in modern sculpture.

Sculptural Sphere

176 pages, 76 ill., hardcover
German/English
2004, Kunstverlag Ingvild Goetz GmbH, Hamburg
ISBN 3-9808063-3-2
€ 10,00

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