TEST PLAY SCULPTURES
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PLAY SCULPTURES
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Painted steel and inkjet print,
dimensions variable
Sofie Thorsen’s spatial installation in the tresor is based on the aesthetic phenomenon of play sculptures, sculptural toys for children designed by artists, which in the post-war years played an important role in discussions on architecture and urbanism. Originating in Scandinavia and the Netherlands, ideas on experimental “play environments” spread abroad, testifying to a revaluation of the creative power of play. In Vienna, too, play sculptures were created for communal residential building developments as part of a large-scale “Kunst-am-Bau” (“percent for art”) programme; its abstract vocabulary of forms and colours introducing a Utopian dynamic into the triste architecture of the reconstruction years. The marginalised area between art and design for children proved to be a paradigmatic field of experimentation in realising the avant-garde demand for a change of life through art.
developments as part of a large-scale “Kunst-am-Bau” (“percent for art”) programme; its abstract vocabulary of forms and colours introducing a Utopian dynamic into the triste architecture of the reconstruction years. The marginalised area between art and design for children proved to be a paradigmatic field of experimentation in realising the avant-garde demand for a change of life through art……
EXHIBITIONS
IG 383 AND THE PLAY SCULPTURES
Overgaden. Institute of Contemporary Art,
Copenhagen
09.02 – 14.07.2013
IG 383 AND THE PLAY SCULPTURES
Overgaden. Institute of Contemporary Art,
Copenhagen
09.02 – 14.07.2013
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Sofie Thorsen – Spielplastiken
Tresor Kunstforum Wien, Vienna
23.05.2013 – 14.07.2013
Social Design
Emil Filla Gallery, Ústí nad Labem
17.10. 2013 – 20.11. 2013
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