Dvir / Paris
Gallery Hours
Tuesday – Thursday: 11:00 – 19:00
Friday – Saturday: 12:00 – 19:00
Florian Pumhösl, ዝናብ (Rain) - First Letter, 2015, collaged monotype print on plasterboard, 39.5 x 27.5 cm (each), unique
Since the early ’90s, the Vienna-based artist Florian Pumhösl has emerged as one of the central figures in this latter group. His complex installations not only further our understanding of modernism’s lingering influence on art, design, and architecture but also provide insights into modernism’s historicization and, specifically, into how the paradigms guiding its critique since the ’60s have themselves turned into the conventions of the international infrastructure of contemporary art.
The interaction between these two concerns is especially well illustrated by Pumhösl’s expansive, room-size installation Modernology (Triangular Atelier), 2007, which was on view at Documenta 12. Based on the artist’s research into multidisciplinary exchanges among the German, Russian, and Japanese historical avant-gardes, the work features adjustable architecture—made of two black buckram–covered partitions, each featuring several hinged sections—intended to evoke the black walls at the exhibition organized in 1914 in Tokyo by the German Expressionist gallery Der Sturm as well as Tomoyoshi Murayama’s Triangular Atelier, a two-story studio and exhibition space the Japanese designer built next to his house in 1926.
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