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Pawel Althamer
Businessman II Handmade Doll 1990
1990

Name: Businessman II Handmade Doll 1990
Brand: Pawel Althamer
Rating: 5 (31 reviews)

$2,500List Price

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Businessman Handmade doll dressed in black coat and blue scarf, 13 height, fabric, leather, label MPALTHAMER 90. Paweł Althamer (born 1967) is a contemporary Polish sculptor, collaborative artist, and creator of installations and video art. In 2000 he participated in Manifesta 3 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He won the Vincent Award in 2004. In 2007, he presented the exhibition One of many with the Nicola Trussardi Foundation. His longest-running collaboration is with the Nowolipie Group, an organization in Warsaw for adults with mental or physical disabilities, to whom he has been teaching a Friday night ceramics class since the early 1990s. In 2008 Althamer arranged for the group to wear matching overalls and take a trip on a biplane, which became the subject of a short film by Althamer’s frequent collaborator, Artur Żmijewski (Winged, 2008). Althamer was part of the so-called Kowalski Studio at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, along with many of today’s leading generation of Polish artists, including Artur Żmijewski and Katarzyna Kozyra. Under the working title ‘Common Space—Private Space’, Kowalski foregrounded the work of art as an effect of complex non-verbal communication performed by artists in interaction with each other, neutralising individualism: ‘each of the participants had at his/her disposal “a space of their own” where they could build elements of their own visual language, and the “common space” open to everyone, where they could conduct simultaneous dialogues with the other participants. All without using words.’ Althamer's large series of works "The Venetians" was exhibited in the Arsenale section of the 2013 Venice Biennale. Althamer’s 2011 commission for the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin, is a key example. He transported a branch of his father’s plastic factory from suburban Poland to the interior of the Berlin museum, where he developed a sculpture workshop. Hundreds of facial casts of exhibition staff and museumgoers were made on-site and attached to metal frames, onto which plastic strips, created from his father’s machines, were added to form mummy-like bodies. The final product—a group portrait of the entire operation ranging in tenor from ghostly to whimsical—is a veritable army. Visitors experienced in real time a combination of the factory floor and art-gallery space, as well as their own transformation from invisible viewer to active participant. The resulting sculptures speak as a memorial to this collective endeavor and a stunning record of the power of community. Althamer has had solo exhibitions at the Westfälischer Kunstverein, Munster, Germany (2002); Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw (2004); Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2006); Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan (2007); Secession, Vienna (2009); and New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (2014). His work has been featured in several important group shows as well, including the Istanbul Biennial (2005); Berlin Biennial: Von Mäusen und Menschen/Of Mice and Men (2006); Skulptur Projekte Münster (2007); Gwangju Biennial, South Korea: Mainbo–10,000 Lives (2010); and Venice Biennale: Il Palazzo Enciclopedico/The Encyclopedic Palace (2013). In 2004 he won the Vincent Award, hosted by the Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Netherlands. He lives and works in Warsaw. Almech, Althamer’s 2011 commission for the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin, is a key example. He transported a branch of his father’s plastic factory from suburban Poland to the interior of the Berlin museum, where he developed a sculpture workshop. Hundreds of facial casts of exhibition staff and museumgoers were made on-site and attached to metal frames, onto which plastic strips, created from his father’s machines, were added to form mummy-like bodies. The final product—a group portrait of the entire operation ranging in tenor from ghostly to whimsical—is a veritable army. Visitors experienced in real time a combination of the factory floor and art-gallery space, as well as their own transformation from invisible viewer to active participant. The resulting sculptures speak as a memorial to this collective endeavor and a stunning record of the power of community. Althamer has had solo exhibitions at the Westfälischer Kunstverein, Munster, Germany (2002); Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw (2004); Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2006); Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan (2007); Secession, Vienna (2009); and New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (2014). His work has been featured in several important group shows as well, including the Istanbul Biennial (2005); Berlin Biennial: Von Mäusen und Menschen/Of Mice and Men (2006); Skulptur Projekte Münster (2007); Gwangju Biennial, South Korea: Mainbo–10,000 Lives (2010); and Venice Biennale: Il Palazzo Enciclopedico/The Encyclopedic Palace (2013). In 2004 he won the Vincent Award, hosted by the Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Netherlands. He lives and works in Warsaw.

Creator:
Pawel Althamer (1967, Polish)
Creation Year:
1990
Dimensions:
Height: 13 in (33.02 cm)
Medium:
Leather,Fabric,Mixed Media
Period:
1990-1999
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Lake Worth Beach, FL
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU19223085233

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