Wolfgang Winter/Berthold Horbelt: Sculptures Drawings 1992-2002 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3775712852 ISBN 13: 9783775712859

Publisher: Hatje Cantz, 2003

Synopsis

Wolfgang Winter and Berthold H+rbelt use plastic bottle-crates as their main structural material, transforming a banal, familiar and generally neglected item of our commercial and transportation landscape into a versatile building block. Their "box houses" can be found throughout the world: plastic public seating areas await loiterers in the parks and city streets of Hokkaido, Freiburg, Liverpool, Frankfurt, New York State and Houston; a plastic lighthouse stands bright on a rock island in Sweden; and plastic pavilions provide information access and rest/reading rooms at exhibitions like Skulptur: Projekte in Mnster and the 1999 Venice Biennale. But Winter and H+rbelt's oeuvre is not just boxes. The artists have created useful, breathable structures from metal mesh (the gratings used for scraping dirty shoes), building a ticket booth in the Hamburger Kunsthalle; and their humorous cast objects and play structures provide some of the most accessible, pleasurable, creative explorations of sculpture today.

About this title

Synopsis:

Wolfgang Winter and Berthold Horbelt have been working together since 1992. The boxy houses built of bottle crates and the signet Winter/Horbelt has become their trademark. Box houses, which combine aesthetic and useful functions, served as information pavilions during the exhibition "Skulptur. Projekte" in Munster in 1997, and at the Venice Biennale in 1999 as resting and reading rooms. Meanwhile, box houses exist all over Europe, in the US, Vietnam and Japan as well as one project in Brazil. This book is published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Westfalisches Landesmuseum fur Kunst und Kulturgeschichte at Munster. It examines the artists' complex oeuvre, which should not be reduced to box houses. With their cast pieces, play devices and walk-in light grid baskets, Winter/Horbelt explore the significance and possibilities of sculpture today, and its change of meaning in various contexts, sites or uses. Essays and an interview by expert authors in the field reflect the genesis of an oeuvre which is illustrated by a carefully documented selection of works.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hatje Cantz
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 3775712852
• ISBN 13: 9783775712859
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 196
• Editor: Birnbaum Daniel, Brouwer Marianne, Matzner Florian, Wappler Friedericke