Michael Sailstorfer - forst - Kestnergesellschaft - Hannover

november 26, 2010 to february 6, 2011

Michael Sailstorfer (*1979, Velden/Vils), who studied at the Akademie der Künste in Munich and Goldsmiths College in London, is one of the most important representatives of recent German art. Through the artistic transformation of everyday objects and places he creates poetic images that deal with conditions from euphoria to decay. Absurd failure and tragicomedy play as important a role as the question of the space a sculpture is able to occupy: sometimes he even attacks our senses of hearing and smell. Sailstorfer's work operates within the tension between such concepts as home and the far away, mobility and standstill or light and darkness. Destruction and recombination are his basic compositional principles. Despite the vehemence of his artistic transformations, Sailstorfer's works always have a characteristic humor and background melancholy.

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