ARTEXT : La Biennale di Venezia
52 Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte
GIARDINI  Padiglione Germania

" OIL "
ISA GENZKEN

Da ormai più di 30 anni Isa Genzken, nata nel 1948 a Bad Oldesloe, crea un'opera che sviluppa costantemente, sbocciando in sempre nuove versioni. La sua ampia opera comprende sculture ed installazioni, nonchè foto, collages e film.
Per Venezia Genzken ha lavorato contestualmente.

"Isa Genzken fa parte del gruppo di artisti anticonformisti dei nostri tempi. Essa riflette il presente come solo pochi altri artisti"..
... she is “one of the least conformist artists of our time and captures this time like few other contemporary artists. Isa Genzken is a sculptor. This seemingly simple observation becomes comparatively complex in relation to her work since she simultaneously questions and affirms the classical conception of the genre. She has never sought linearity but rather always radically transformed her artistic praxis.” [ Nicolaus Schafhausen ]

Da una conversazione con Wolfang Tillmans

W. Tillmans: Well, I realise that. But what I’d like to know is what photography does for you in concrete terms…

I. Genzken: I think that photography has a lot to do with sculpture – because it is three-dimensional and because it depicts reality. For example, I have always been able to relate to photography more than to painting. When I was photographing the hi-fi adverts I thought to myself, everyone has one of these towers at home. It’s the latest thing, the most modern equipment available. So a sculpture must be at least as modern and must stand up to it. Then I hung the pictures on the wall and put an ellipsoid on the floor and thought, the ellipsoid must be at least as good as this advert. At least as good. That’s how good a modern sculpture has to be. Do you see what I mean? That was the dialogue…

W. Tillmans: So, really, the real world is always your point of reference…

I. Genzken: Yes, and I have always said that, with any sculpture, you have to be able to say, although this is not a ready-made, it could be one. That’s what a sculpture has to look like. It must have a certain relation to reality. I mean, not airy-fairy, let alone fabricated, so aloof and polite. [Camera Austria, No. 81/2003, pp. 7–18. ]

Curatore : Nicolaus Schafhausen

Artista : Isa Genzken

Web Site : http://www.deutscher-pavillon.org/