ATTEMPT TO BE A SCULPTURE. Franz Erhard Walther
With a loan from the Mercedes-Benz Art Collection
The Mercedes-Benz Art Collection is supporting the exhibition ‘Attempt to be a Sculpture’ with a loan from its collection.
About the exhibition: The exhibition ‘Attempt to be a Sculpture’ draws from the eponymous work that lays the foundation for Walther’s ongoing endeavour to reformulate sculpture as an open process and action, and to shape new modes of bodily presence in time and space. The works, which are articulated throughout a non-chronological trajectory highlight the conceptual turning points of his oeuvre spanning more than six decades. Mirroring the ways in which the artist has challenged the objecthood of art and shifted the production of meaning from the object to the body in action, they liquefy the boundaries between the artwork and our bodily selves. (Arter)