Walter Pichler : drawings, sculptures, buildings = drawings, sculptures, buildings

Title: Walter Pichler : drawings, sculptures, buildings = drawings, sculptures, buildings

Author: Rudi Fuchs

Binding: Paperback

EAN: 9783851270198

Condition: Good

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Description:
The Austrian sculptor Walter Pichler (1936) was allowed by director Rudi Fuchs of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam to choose his own exhibition rooms. Without restraint, Pichler chose the large hall of honor opposite the stairs and the rooms to the left and right of it. He also used the stairs themselves. He placed a large female figure of bronze and wood there, which towers high above the visitors. Pichler's work is therefore presented very prominently.

For Pichler himself, the exhibition is an experiment, because he rarely sees his ensembles of sculptures and architectural constructions outside the studio. In fact, it is not really the intention that they are shown outside his hometown. At his farm, in the Austrian countryside near the Hungarian border, Pichler builds houses and temples for his sculptures. Fuchs speaks of an 'Acropolis'. Dimensions, materials, everything is determined with great precision, and only there do his sculptures come into their own, according to Pichler in the preface to the catalogue.