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Kunsthalle Wien presents a major survey of works by Richard Hawkins (b. 1961, Mexia, Texas), bringing together over 100 paintings, collages, sculpture and videos from nine distinct bodies of work produced over the last three decades. It is the first institutional exhibition of Hawkins’s work in over a decade and the first in Austria.
Since the early 1990s, Hawkins has developed a singular practice based upon the intense pleasure of looking and the dynamics of desire. Employing collage as a means to structure and develop his compositions, he has described his work as ‘promiscuously referential’, quoting from the histories of artistic representation in sculpture, painting, literature and the performing arts alongside popular culture.
The exhibition manifests distinct lines of obsessive enquiry that has encompassed subjects as diverse as Greek and Roman statuary and the headshots of Japanese male hair models. Hawkins’s fanatical approach makes reference to the often private activity of…
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Kunsthalle Wien presents a major survey of works by Richard Hawkins (b. 1961, Mexia, Texas), bringing together over 100 paintings, collages, sculpture and videos from nine distinct bodies of work produced over the last three decades. It is the first institutional exhibition of Hawkins’s work in over a decade and the first in Austria.
Since the early 1990s, Hawkins has developed a singular practice based upon the intense pleasure of looking and the dynamics of desire. Employing collage as a means to structure and develop his compositions, he has described his work as ‘promiscuously referential’, quoting from the histories of artistic representation in sculpture, painting, literature and the performing arts alongside popular culture.
The exhibition manifests distinct lines of obsessive enquiry that has encompassed subjects as diverse as Greek and Roman statuary and the headshots of Japanese male hair models. Hawkins’s fanatical approach makes reference to the often private activity of…
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