Logical Disorder

Crone is pleased to present Logical Disorder, the first joint exhibition of the exceptional Austrian artists Franz West and Bruno Gironcoli, whose practices share numerous, in part lesser-known points of affinities. Franz West studied under Bruno Gironcoli at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in the 1970s and found in him a mentor who had a lasting influence on his work. Later, as West rose to become a leading figure on the international art scene, he was the one who helped bring Gironcoli the recognition he deserved beyond Austria. In Logical Disorder, their works are now brought into direct dialogue. On the one hand, the exhibition reveals that West and Gironcoli share a profound fascination with the curious, the absurd, and the bizarre. On the other hand, the fundamentally different approaches and artistic practices each derives from this shared impulse toward the eccentric come into focus. Gironcoli celebrates the apparatus; West the being. Gironcoli exalts the polished, immaculate, metallic surface; West the rugged, uneven, patched skin. Gironcoli creates technomorphic, ritualized, and mythological bodies; West produces seemingly casual, everyday-oriented objects that invite use. Gironcoli stands for monumentality, artistic authority, and auratic closure; West for the fragmentary, the anti-heroic, the participatory, the open sculpture. Logical Disorder is presented in collaboration with Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Innsbruck/Vienna, which has supported the work of Franz West and Bruno Gironcoli for decades.

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