GEHARD DEMETZ. CONTENITORE

»The sculptures by the Italian artist Gehard Demetz generally depict children, who confront the viewer as small adults. They consciously irritate and provoke the beholder, all the while remaining distanced and unapproachable, as though they were retreating into a small »big world« of their own, within which they playfully explore all that matters to grown-ups. They examine everything very carefully, scrutinize adult motivations and tend to take a critical view of world affairs. They play with fire, probing the boundaries of their own power. They walk a fine line between being a child and becoming an adult, between unconscious action and conscious behaviour, between playful innocence and painful awakening.«
(Kirsten Nordahl, »Little Big Creatures: they never look at you ‒ they watch you«, in: Gehard Demetz. Contenitore, Düsseldorf, 2011)

Artist: Gehard Demetz
Editor: Ute Eggeling, Michael Beck
Text: Gesine Borcherdt, Kirsten Nordahl
Design: Beck & Eggeling (Antonia Eggeling)

German, English
Hardcover, 28,5 x 22 cm
56 pages, 28 illustrations

Available works of the artist

Gehard Demetz, Only the Princess Looks Normal, 2020, © Gehard Demetz + VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Gehard Demetz, Divinum Drone, 2015, © Gehard Demetz + VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Gehard Demetz, Objekt 5, 2012, © Gehard Demetz + VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Gehard Demetz, 21 Grams, 2018

Associated exhibition

Gehard Demetz. Contenitore

Dusseldorf / 10 September – 29 October 2011

In his first solo exhibition at Beck & Eggeling's he concentrates on questioning the frequently contradictory cultural values which characterise contemporary society. How specific values are purs...

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