Susan Philipsz’s The Lost Reflection, 2007, is a sound installation under the Tormin Bridge (Torminbruecke) on Lake Aa that was commissioned by the Munster Sculpture Project 07. It was one of the most outstanding contributions to the 2007 Sculpture Project. The fact that another sound work by Suchan Kinochita, was also outstanding indicates that sculptural installation is beginning to lose its grip after over fifteen years of sharing aesthetic ascendancy with video art. Some of the weakest pieces in Munster this year were fag ends of endless sculptural installation variations on the Readymade theme. (more…)
Annette Wehrmann’s contribution to Munster Sculpture Project 07, Aaspa: Wellness am See (AaSpa Wellness by the Lake) consisted of a simulated building site. Her work can be understood as a symptom of a more general aesthetic zeitgeist in which artists express a desire to be socially useful and immediately deconstruct this outrageous yearning. (more…)
Nairy Baghramian’s contribution to the Munster Sculpture Project was a little disappointing. (more…)
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Mike Kelley’s contribution to the Sculpture Project 07 is Petting Zoo (Streichelzoo), 2007, an installation with live animals. Like most of Kelley’s work Petting Zoo plays with narrative, but that does not mean that it makes any sense. (more…)
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The story we are told is that Jeremy Deller saw some of the pretty, collective garden plots (Kleingaerten [little gardens]) in Munster when he flew over the city. He investigated this phenomenon and decided that they would be his contribution to the exhibition. The Readymade strikes again. (more…)
Whereas Nairy Baghramian, Annette Wehrmann and Mark Wallinger indulged in yet more variations on the interminable Readymade theme Hans-Peter Feldman went past such superficial interpretations of deconstructive art and tackled the deeper, underlying issue which is the reconciliation of art with life (more…)
Suchan Kinoshita’s sound installation was one of the most impressive pieces in the Munster Sculpture Project 07. One can quibble about whether it is actually sculpture, but what is more interesting is that as sculptural installation art gradually leaves the limelight, aesthetic uses of technology (in this case three-dimensional sound) move towards centre stage as the most significant contributors to contemporary artistic production. (more…)
Valérie Jouve’s site-specific work for the Munster Sculpture Project 07 is more of a video installation than a sculpture, but then the concept of sculpture is so deconstructed now that the term can be applied to almost anything that isn’t flat and hung on a wall. (more…)
The Munster Sculpture Project was, overall, considerably better than Documenta 12, which is a remarkable statement considering that Munster had much less funds at its disposal. (more…)
Susan Philipsz’s The Lost Reflection, 2007, is a sound installation under the Tormin Bridge (Torminbruecke) on Lake Aa that was commissioned by the Munster Sculpture Project 07. It was one of the most outstanding contributions to the 2007 Sculpture Project. The fact that another sound work by Suchan Kinochita, was also outstanding indicates that sculptural installation is beginning to lose its grip after over fifteen years of sharing aesthetic ascendancy with video art. Some of the weakest pieces in Munster this year were fag ends of endless sculptural installation variations on the Readymade theme. (more…)
