There’s also a handmade booth, covered in copies of the vaunted Baltimore Examiner, where patrons can practice their own performance art, out of view of the peeping eyes of other patrons. For the current visitor there are fresh Adaptives to handle. West’s older Adaptives from the ’70s are on display, though are now too brittle to use. Also, don’t miss out on spying on fellow patrons (especially the older, fuddy-duddy museum goers) as they nervously break the cardinal sin of museum-going by fondling the hardware.įrom there, the exhibition examines West’s trademark work, the Adaptives crafted geometrical shapes, made mostly of plaster or Paper Mache, constructed specifically for people to play with. Enjoy sitting on the attached stools and fondling materials. The exhibit opens with a visual KO two massive, twisting aluminum obelisks titled “The Id and the Ego.” They’re the most impressive exhibits, both in size and in message.They are also the most interactive. We’re talking lots of dick jokes.), “To Build a House” provides a succinct tour of Franz’s work and the ideas that lie within, focusing on a philosophy that shuns the studious, hands-off decorum of the art museum in favor of playful thought and interaction. That’s the impression that resonates after visiting the Baltimore Museum of Art’s current exhibit of the Austrian artist’s work, “To Build A House You Start with the Roof: Franz West 1972-2008.” Interactive, artistically egotistical and Fruedian in a subversively delightful way (Dick jokes. There would be grown men vamping it out, plaster constructs propped on their heads like carnival crowns. It’d be a day full of dirty stories, maybe a little boozing, some stupid insider jokes that you’d couldn’t help but laugh at weeks later. I republish it here.įranz West must be a hoot to hangout with. I wrote a personal review of it at the time. A talented sculpture, satirist, performance artist and jokester, West’s work made its way a Baltimore a few years ago for an exhibit at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Austrian artist Franz West passed away last week, at the age of 65.
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