The current
Thomas Stimm exhibit at Mueum Moderner Kunst has huge artificial flowers growing out of the museum's walls and from the grounds around the museum.
Photos Courtesy of MUMOK, 2008
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Within the context of the urban architecture of the MuseumsQuartier, an ensemble of enormous flowers and fruits will be set up as a monumental Schrebergarten whose disproportional banality should seem incongruous with the bombastic architecture surrounding it.
The decorative artificiality of his objects ironically reflects the nature of the materials of art and the sculptural transformation of natural objects into artificial objects thus also indirectly posing the question of the process of abstraction. Aluminum and automobile paint in brilliant colors further highlight this process.
Nature is a constant theme in Thomas Stimm’s work which has undergone numerous changes throughout his development: After first creating vast papier-mâché landscapes and smaller-scale narrative scenes out of clay, he began working with flowers and blossoms on a very large scale. Their monumental proportions and size play games with one’s coordinates of perception.
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I think I'd rather have a real flower garden, but maybe this is just the thing for an urban garden
04-14-2008, 08:31 PM
