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On the rooftop of Dia, West installed twenty-seven welded steel couches
with cotton slipcovers and accompanying tables. West invited
the viewer to participate and interact with the objects.
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| Selected Bibliography |
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Auerbach, Lisa Anne. "Franz West." Artforum vol. 32,
no. 10 (Summer 1994), 98-99.
Fleck, Robert. "Franz West: Masterfully Unmasterly,"
Art Press 187 (January 1994), E1-E6.
Franz West. Austria: Biennale di Venezia, 1990. Essays by Hans
Hollein, Enrico Comi, and Franz West.
Franz West: Investigations of American Art. Warsaw and New York:
Galeria Foksal and David Zwirner Gallery, 1992-1993. Conversation
between Kasper König and Franz West.
Franz West: Possibilities. Long Island City: The Institute for
Contemporary Art, P.S. 1 Museum, 1986. Essay by Jeffrey Rian.
"Franz West interviewed by Iwona Blazwick, James Lingwood,
and Andrea Schlieker," in Possible Worlds: Sculpture from
Europe. London: Institute of Contemporary Art/Serpentine Gallery,
1990.
Parkett 37 (September 1993). Essays by Denys Zacharopoulos, Elisabeth
Schlebrügge, Harald Szeemann, Jan Avgikos, and Martin Prinzhorn,
Franz West and Axel Huber. Conversation between Bernhard Riff,
Jürgen Walter, and Franz West.
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| Biography |
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Franz West was born in Vienna in 1947, where he continues to live
and work. He began making Paßstücke in 1976,
and metal sculpture/furniture in the mid-eighties. During that
decade he exhibited widely in Europe and elsewhere, representing
Austria at the Venice Biennale in 1990. In 1989 a large show of
his work was presented at The Institute for Contemporary Art,
P.S. 1 Museum, in Long Island City.
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| Funding |
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Funding for this project has been provided by the Austrian Federal
Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the Austrian Cultural Institute,
New York, and the Austrian Ministry of Education and Art. It
originated at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and
has been reconceived for Dia.
Covers designed and fabricated by Gilbert Bretterbauer.
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