KÜNSTLERHAUS

BETHANIEN

Künstler*innen

Xavier Mary

Belgium

While Xavier Mary’s work bears witness to a minimalist sensibility, its conceptual sophistication and inherent dramatic tension extend beyond a purely formalistic reading. Minimalism, it appears, is here rewritten in a simultaneously intuitive and daring way. With their industrial appearance, Mary’s sculptures radiate an evocative and jubilant playfulness, oscillating between minimal form and “psychedelia”, between radicality and incoherent fantasy. By cleverly combining prefabricated and standardised elements to achieve symmetry and seriality, his arrangements attract the gaze into an infinite loop. (Charles Gohy)

STAY
15.04.2011 – 15.04.2012