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Entrée opens this autumn with new works by Berlin-based artist Max Paul. In his first international solo show, Paul presents a series of nighttime observations of classical sculptures photographed in various European cities. As it turns out, many of the naked bodies – once customary in public sculpture, now curiously out of fashion – have been covered up with protective nets and beset with spikes to ward off wildlife. Through his lens, Paul re-eroticizes the figures, emphasizing points of aggression and vulnerability. As Kristian Vistrup Madsen writes in the accompanying publication “these are pictures about constraint, about tension; about establishing a way of looking that transforms what is looked at”.
Max Paul’s practice spans a range of different media, but often develops through his interest in the popular imagery of art and architectural history and the traces this leaves in the urban fabric and people‘s minds. He is interested in how a city‘s collective self-image is...More
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Entrée•Aug 16, 2024 — Oct 20, 2024
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Entrée opens this autumn with new works by Berlin-based artist Max Paul. In his first international solo show, Paul presents a series of nighttime observations of classical sculptures photographed in various European cities. As it turns out, many of the naked bodies – once customary in public sculpture, now curiously out of fashion – have been covered up with protective nets and beset with spikes to ward off wildlife. Through his lens, Paul re-eroticizes the figures, emphasizing points of aggression and vulnerability. As Kristian Vistrup Madsen writes in the accompanying publication “these are pictures about constraint, about tension; about establishing a way of looking that transforms what is looked at”.
Max Paul’s practice spans a range of different media, but often develops through his interest in the popular imagery of art and architectural history and the traces this leaves in the urban fabric and people‘s minds. He is interested in how a city‘s collective self-image is...More
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