Helmut Lang: What remains behind
MAK Center for Art and Architecture presents What remains behind by Helmut Lang in the artist's first solo institutional exhibition in Los Angeles at the Schindler House.
The historic house designed by fellow Austrian Rudolph Schindler provides the spare, proto-minimalist frame for a series of freestanding sculptures. Neither entirely figurative nor entirely abstract, they bring a fundamentally reductivist approach to material that is deeply impregnated with the burden of history. Sometimes this reads as a confrontation between the body and its past derelictions. At others the current is sexual, an accumulated tension that itself becomes a stand-in for human identity, vulnerability and desire. Always they occupy a liminal space where form is in a continual state of becoming.
MAK Center for Art and Architecture presents What remains behind by Helmut Lang in the artist's first solo institutional exhibition in Los Angeles at the Schindler House.
The historic house designed by fellow Austrian Rudolph Schindler provides the spare, proto-minimalist frame for a series of freestanding sculptures. Neither entirely figurative nor entirely abstract, they bring a fundamentally reductivist approach to material that is deeply impregnated with the burden of history. Sometimes this reads as a confrontation between the body and its past derelictions. At others the current is sexual, an accumulated tension that itself becomes a stand-in for human identity, vulnerability and desire. Always they occupy a liminal space where form is in a continual state of becoming.
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MAK Center for Art and Architecture presents What remains behind by Helmut Lang in the artist鈥檚 first solo institutional exhibition in Los Angeles at the Schindler House.
MAK Center for Art and Architecture presents聽What remains behind聽by Helmut Lang in the artist鈥檚 first solo institutional exhibition in Los Angeles at the Schindler House.
Now, Lang鈥檚 chimeric sculptures are coming to Los Angeles in What remains behind, his latest solo exhibition housed at the Schindler House of the MAK Center.
As his exhibition opens in Los Angeles, the artist and former designer reflects on ideas of ephemerality and materiality.
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