Franz West

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• Author(s): Franz West, Carlos Basualdo, Österreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst,
• Publisher: Hatje Cantz
• Pages: 159
• ISBN_10: 3775711384
  ISBN_13: 9783775711388
  
• Language: de
• Categories: Art / European , Art / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945) , Art / Individual Artists / General , Art / Sculpture & Installation ,

Description:... Since the mid-1970s, prominent Austrian artist Franz West has created objects in which use is the most important criterion for reception. After creating "Fittings," plaster and papier-mache objects meant to be attached to the human body and interacted with by their wearer, and their logical extension, "seating equipment," West sought to create a setting for a new kind of experience. Merciless presents little-seen work which West has constructed over the past five years and which addresses these late concerns. Of special focus is an expansive installation West developed for the MAK in Vienna, the largest of his completed works to date.