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30/8/2014

Clemens Krauss

MARTa Herford Museum of Art and Design, Herford

The exhibition gives, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the work of the Austrian artist Clemens Krauss (born in 1981 in Graz). In his pictures, films, installations and performances he places the human body, the individual and the society at the centre of an almost inescapable encounter. Already at the entrance to the museum we come across small bodies in open constellations painted directly on the wall in oil. The extremely pasty paint application gives them material substance, while at the same time making them appear fragmentary and in a state of dissolution. The streaky, dense application of the oil paint causes the faces to glide into a disturbing anonymity. In his groups of works entitled "Chromosomes" and "Constellations", which also includes the mural "Re-Main" created especially for Marta Herford, the artist captures poses of people in war and conflict situations which he assembles in ever new combinations of almost genderless and ageless figures. The particular interest of the artist in the human web of relationships is also manifested in an unusually labyrinthine exhibition architecture. Opening on Sunday, 31 August, at 11.30am

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