Galerie Eva Presenhuber is pleased to present a solo booth of furniture by Franz West.

The collaboration between Franz West and Eva Presenhuber began nearly 30 years ago in Zurich, where West exhibited for the first time at Galerie Walcheturm, then owned by Presenhuber. This initial collaboration led to a series of subsequent gallery exhibitions during West's lifetime and following his passing in 2012.

In the mid-70s, Franz West began rejecting the traditionally passive way of experiencing art and started making what he called Passstücke (Adaptives). Exhibition visitors were encouraged to pick these up and carry them around. West’s furniture is a further development of this earlier work. Taking a sculptural approach to chairs, tables, upholstered furniture, coat racks, and bookshelves, West placed them in relation to his concept of sculpture through a variety of corporeal attitudes and tactile responses. By questioning the utility of art as well as our physical and psychological relationship to it, West challenged the way art is experienced and defined, and thereby positing an interpretation of furniture as both sculpture and social experience. Furniture sculptures play a central role in West’s oeuvre and are often an essential part of his installations.

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