
MICHAEL KUTSCHBACH
MANXOME FOE
Nov 26 – Dec 19, 2010
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- Michael Kutschbach, “hoi polloi (3)”, 2010, Plaster, aluminium, silver leaf on painted wooden plinth
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- Michael Kutschbach, “hoi polloi (4)”, 2010, Plaster, aluminium, silver leaf on painted wooden plinth
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- Michael Kutschbach, “hoi polloi (5)”, 2010, Plaster, aluminium, silver leaf on painted wooden plinth
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- Michael Kutschbach, “hoi polloi (10)”, 2010, Plaster, aluminium, silver leaf on painted wooden plinth
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- Michael Kutschbach, “hoi polloi (1)”, 2010, Plaster, aluminium, ink and wax on painted wooden plinth
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- Michael Kutschbach, “hoi polloi (2)”, 2010, Plaster, aluminium, ink and wax on painted wooden plinth
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- Michael Kutschbach, “hoi polloi (11)”, 2010, Plaster, aluminium, ink and wax on painted wooden plinth
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- Michael Kutschbach, “hoi polloi (10)”, 2010, Plaster, aluminium, ink and wax on painted wooden plinth
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- Michael Kutschbach, “hoi polloi (7)”, 2010, Plaster, aluminium, ink and wax on painted wooden plinth
(…) Kutschbach has already situated what’s visible far enough inside the realm of the fi ctional that it is anchored more closely to a poetic description of an invented something than it is to an object we recognize from daily experience. In his work, Michael Kutschbach reasons as effectively as Humpty Dumpty when it comes to the meaning of words. It’s about letting forms “assume all possible meanings” within a wide range of associations. In accordance with “Humpty Dumpty semantics,” an intentionalized concept of language or forms applies to Kutschbach, whereby words (or forms) don’t acquire meaning via usage, rather this is constituted via the acts of the subject that confer meaning upon them.
Christoph Tannert, 2010 (excerpt from the catalogue essay to “Callooh!, Callay!” Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin).