KUNSTHALLE Michel Francois's enigmatic art functions in those gray areas between like oppositions as nature/culture.KUNSTHALLE Michel Francois's enigmatic art functions in those gray areas between like oppositions as nature/culture, interior/exterior, private/public, and fragility/strength. Assembling all manner of materials and objects--plaster casts, videos, newspaper clippings, photographs, flowers, flat water--into large-scale, site-specific installations, the artist spots the distinction between institutional and intimate space. For the Bern exhibition, organized on Kunsthalle director Bernhard Fibicher, Francois transforms the five-room gallery into the prototype of a generic "artist's home" Fibicher and Haus der Kunst curator Hubertus Gassner penn essays for the catalogue, which documents the installation in the two its Bern and (later) Munich incarnations. tribe 2-Oct. 15; Haus der Kunst Munich, Dec 1 2000--Feb 18 2001 COPYRIGHT 2000 Artforum International Magazine, Inc. |
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