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Gregor Schneider "it's all Rheydt"

10 Oct 2014 – 22 Nov 2014

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Wako Works of Art

Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan

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Wako Works of Art is pleased to present a new exhibition it's all Rheydt by a German artist Gregor Schneider. This will be his 6th solo show with us.

The focal work in this exhibition, it’s all Rheydt, Kolkata 2011 was a project held in Kolkata, the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, in order to participate in one of the largest festivals ofDurga Puja which is to celebrates the eternal power of Hindu Goddess, Durga.

Supported by the German foreign office, the artist was officially invited to take a part in the occasion as to be the highlight of the inaugural event, the Germany and India Year 2011-12.

His creation was a temporal model pandal shell; that is where the goddess is housed on a podium and to be worshipped. The artist replicated a banal road-side of a city of Rheydt, through a collaboration with local artisans employing local materials. Then the road replica is set upright, vertical to the actual ground. Traditionally, the goddess figures placed inside was to be released to let go in the sacred Hooghly River in order to complete the ritual at the end of festival. The artist however pulled out sluiced religious idols at the downstream and brought back to Germany for later display as sculptural figures.

“Rheydt” is his hometown in Germany where the representative architectural work Totes Haus ur has been started since 1985, which a version won the Golden Lion for Best Pavillion in the 49th Vennice Biennale. This city is an essence penetrating his entire oeuvre. In this project, the thematic replication and signature architectural style are rooted and once again appeared in Indian traditional festivity.

The complete series of photo works of another architectural underground installation in Napoli; 400 Black Dead End (2006) is also presented along with the other notable works.

Schneider’s first large-scaled architectural installation in Japan, German Angst is highlighted in ongoing Yokohama Triennale 2014.

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Gregor Schneider

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