Friday 28 June 2024

Daniela Baumann / Alfred Hrdlicka

 


Alfred Hrdlicka   

Orpheus 1  

2008 

bronze  

Vienna

 

 

Alfred Hrdlicka was an impressive sculptor and graphic artist. His consistent imagery, the power and energy with which he created the figure in stone or on paper had a great impact on me when I was young. His uncompromisingly energetic and unadorned sculptures, drawings and graphics were a kind of guide at the time and left their mark on me.


Daniela Baumann, 2024





Daniela Baumann (DE)

Earthbound   

2024     

charcoal on paper 

280 x 300 cm     

photo Peter Hinschlaeger

www.baumanndaniela.de 



Friday 14 June 2024

Karin van Pinxteren / Juan Muñoz

 


Juan Muñoz

Listening Figure

1991

patinated bronze

135 x 74 x 73 cm

image: Van Abbemuseum

 

 


They walk with you, sometimes for a moment, sometimes for years, inserting in, inserting out, joining, disappearing, communicating with something that you are open to at that moment.

Juan Muñoz joins me again; he is an old acquaintance. His hushed but breathing work ‘Two Figures and Two Trees’ made a deep impression at Park Middelheim in Antwerp 1993. After the recognition, unknown to me at the time, he stuck around for ten years, before quietly leaving, even literally. Now he reappears.

I know nothing about Muñoz, we stroll in images, not words. The book I bought thirty years ago is a Spanish edition, his motivations are unknown to me. I don't seem to need to read anything about it, which surprises me now because it is an unexpected observation: all these years I’ve only been watching.

The title of the publication is ‘mónologos y dialogos’. The translation may be obvious and with it the reason why the work appeals to me.

It strikes me that I can make out many Muñoz / van Pinxteren duos, this too is an unexpected observation - and an ode to intuition, which I was not aware of before this question was put to me.

Karin van Pinxteren, 2024






Karin van Pinxteren (NL)

Trust

2012-2018

wood, text, cardboard, lacquer

62 x 35 x 3 cm

photo: Peter Cox
karinvanpinxteren.com