Heimo Zobernig
Heimo Zobernig works across various media, including sculpture, installation, painting, drawing, performance, video, and architectural interventions. In the early 1980s, he engaged with the geometric abstraction of Modernism, challenging the Minimal Art principle "You get what you see." His early black sculptures, though resembling heavy industrial architectural elements, are in fact hand-crafted cardboard pieces. Zobernig often uses materials like particle board, Styrofoam, paper, and fabric, emphasizing the objectness of his works. His minimalist approach reflects influences from Russian Constructivism, De Stijl, and the Zurich Concretes, representing a "sober, non-transcendent view of the world."
Zobernig treats art as a communication system, focusing not just on creating works, but on the societal relations between people and objects. In the 1990s, he designed spaces like canteens, meeting rooms, and pavilions for art institutions, including a hall for lectures and discussions at documenta X in 1997.
His extensive painting work features monochromes, grids, stripes, and text, often referencing Constructivism and concrete art while reinterpreting them in contemporary contexts.
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