Untitled (Ragdoll Boss) |
1:43-47, Berlin |
1:43-47, Berlin |
—Untitled (Ragdoll Boss)
2009
Wood, iron, electric motor
210 x 85 x 20 cm
Inspired by the game ‘Ragdoll Blast’, Michael Sailstorfer created a simple marionette of wood, whose head is fastened to the wall while its limbs dangle back and forth. The figure swings, sometimes more intensely, sometimes less, from left to right, and now and again it turns 360° around its own head. The wooden limbs clatter loudly as they whirl about, making the sculpture’s movements seem like an unintentionally clumsy and wooden but nonetheless daring acrobatic interlude.
—1:43-47, Berlin
2009
Concrete mixer, gas flame, popcorn
218 x 123 x 72 cm
Continuing to explore sculpture‘s self-producing process, Untitled (1:43-47) is an endlessly flowing popcorn machine that addresses both the surface expansion of a kernel (43 to 47 times bigger once popped), and the expansion of the boundaries of sculpture itself.
Biography
* 1979 in Velden
1999–2005 Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich
2003–2004 MA Fine Arts, Goldsmiths College, London
Lives and works in Berlin
Selected solo exhibitions
—2009
Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris
—2008
Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
—2007
Kasseler Kunstvereinsheim
Galleria Zero, Milan
—2006
Johann König, Berlin
—2005
MARTa Herford, Herford
Jack Hanley Gallery, Los Angeles
—2004
Attitudes - espace d‘art contemporain, Geneva
—2003
Galerie Markus Richter, Berlin
—2002
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich
Selected group exhibitions
—2009
The Quick and the Dead, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
—2008
Merkwürdige Maschinen, Phaenomenale 2008, Kunstverein Wolfsburg
—2007
Made in Germany, Kunstverein, Sprengel Museum, Hannover
Ironie der Objekte, Museion, Bozen
Förderpreis Schering Stiftung 2007, Berlinsche Galerie, Berlin
Moscow Biennale, Moscow
—2006
Transatlantique Impulse, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin
—2005
Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht, ZKM, Karlsruhe
Rückkehr ins All, Kunsthalle Hamburg
Bewegliche Teile, Formen des Kinetischen, Museum Tinguely, Basel
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Untitled (Ragdoll Boss) |
1:43-47, Berlin |
1:43-47, Berlin |