WERNER REITERER – SCULPTURES
2019-09-30In his concepts, installations, sculptures and drawings, Werner Reiterer creates subversive realities that upend society’s rules and norms with flashes of acute criticism, irony and wicked humor. Behind the simple and deceptively casual title Sculptures lies a conceptual arrangement that connects the very different works on view in terms of content. A felt hat—epitome of a fading bourgeois lifestyle—has three holes cut into it. In a photo work the artist reveals its fatal function: the bourgeois version of a stocking mask destined to be used in a hold-up, a once proud marker of social respectability now indicating the bourgeoisie’s descent and ultimate absorption into the milieu of common criminals. This preposterous object symbolizes the increasingly precarious situation of various middle class groups and their growing criminal potential.
Opposite – Locked in!, 2014
Exhibition runs through to November 2nd, 2019
Loevenbruck
6, rue Jacques Callot
75006 Paris
France
