Franz West Meets Los Angeles
If you’re in the LA area, check out Franz West, To Build a House You Start with the Roof: Work, 1972–2008, on display until June 7 at LACMA. Marquand produced the accompanying catalog, designed by Beverly Joel and available through MIT Press. The LA Times Culture Monster blog recently posted a review of the tactile show:
Wrapping pieces of wood and cardboard and lengths of wire with gauze, coating it in plaster or papier mâché and painting the whole thing white, West made sculptures that the audience was meant to pick up, manipulate, examine at close range, hang on an arm or around the neck, or even stick one’s face into. The shapes are abstract. But often, part of the sculpture suggests a handle — a direct visual invitation to audience participation. Silently it says, Touch me, hold me.
An interview with West from the catalog is available through LACMA’s website. The artist talks about growing up in public housing in Vienna, his long thread of accomplishments as an artist, and everything in between.
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