Genealogie des Ungreifbaren

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© Generali Foundation Collection—Permanent Loan to the Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Photo: Werner Kaligofsky

Franz West

Ohne Titel, 1981-82

"Passstück"

Sculpture, Paper-mâché, metal, wood, gauze, painted white, 160 x 52 x 45 cm

GF0000112.00.0-1994

Artwork text

“It was actually meant to be an exhibition of neuroses. I maintain that if one could see a neurosis it would look just like that. It has also a certain similarity to cult objects of the sort that one carries about in Africa. I have made it from polyester, which is a fairly typical material hereabouts and it is not ritual gear, but a proper neurosis that one carries here, coming from the same source. Man has, as it were, become a kind of Prosthetic God (S. Freud).” (Franz West)

Lending history
2013 Vienna, AT, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Luwig Wien (mumok) 2013 Frankfurt a.M., DE, MMK Museum Moderner Kunst 2010 Graz, AT, Kunsthaus am Landesmuseum Joanneum 2009 Cologne, DE, Museum Ludwig 2009 Basel, CH, Fondation Beyeler 2005 Zagreb, CRO, Galerija Klovicevi Dvori 2005 Munich, DE, Haus der Kunst 2005 Rotterdam, NL, Witte de With 3. OG