Kazuko Miyamoto. String Constructions
With two loans from the Mercedes-Benz Art Collection
The Mercedes-Benz Art Collection is supporting the exhibition ‘Kazuko Miyamoto. String Constructions’ with two loan from its collection.
About the exhibition: Miyamoto is a leading figure in the post-minimal and feminist movements in New York, where she has lived since 1964. ‘String Constructions’ focuses on Miyamoto’s eponymous sculpture series from the 1970s and 1980s, and traces the shifts in her methodology. The seminal ‘String Constructions’, two- and three-dimensional waves of string are borrowed works, but their intricate construction of repeatable but unique gestures—marking, nailing, knotting, and rigorously tethering hundreds of strings—is produced onsite by the KW team and will be cut when the exhibition ends. Her sculptural constructions, therefore, interweave the notion of collectivity, liveness, sustainability, as well as the ephemeral or temporary into their conceptual framework. This line of inquiry follows KW’s Director, Emma Enderby’s vision for focusing on collectiveness, sustainability, and local production, while similarly continuing KW’s institutional legacy, revisiting artists that sit outside of the canon. (KW Institute for Contemporary Art)