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Richard Hawkins
A retrospective of the American artist Richard Hawkins, showcasing his most significant works. The exhibition will feature paintings, collages, and sculptures that draw on the histories of art, literature, and popular culture, incorporating biographical details, anecdotes, and obsessive subcultures. Since the early 2000s, his work has embraced an eclectic mix of subjects ranging from Greek and Roman sculpture to steampunk, quoting influential artists like Otto Dix, Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, Pierre Bonnard, and Francis Bacon, while also paying homage to notable figures such as the Japanese choreographer Tatsumi and the artist Forrest Bess to explore the theme of desire. This exhibition at Kunsthalle Wien will be the largest presentation of his work in over a decade, displaying both new creations and selections from the past twenty years, and will be accompanied by a new monographic publication.
Guan Xiao
Working across the mediums of sculpture, installation, and video, Guan Xiao defies simple classification by blending unlikely combinations of objects, images, and media. Her art humorously engages with the museum context through anachronistic pairings of the ancient and the futuristic, as well as the organic and inorganic. Often, her works reference themes of presentation and reproduction. A diverse array of items, including oil-paper umbrellas, camera tripods, car wheels, ropes, and knee pads, are weaved into anthropomorphic sculptures and expansive installations that juxtapose artisanal elements with those that are mass-produced, digitally manipulated, or 3D printed. This exhibition at Kunsthalle Wien will showcase a new collection of sculptures centered around the fundamental themes of food and shelter, which will shape a rich and imaginative narrative.
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