Haim Steinbach. Matrix 217. Work in Progress: Objects for People/Snapshots

10.07.2005 - 04.09.2005

Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, BAM / PFA, Berkeley / United States

In 1979, Haim Steinbach had a show at New York´s Artist Space that commenced his carrer. For that exhibition, he installed wallpaper in the gallery, borrowed objects from friends, and placed the items on shelves. By the late 1980s, Steinbach was recognized as one of the world´s leading contemporary artists, known for having radically redefined the status of objects in art. In a recent interview in "Artforum", he elaborated: "Desire translates into the things with which we ritualize our lives and into the way we communicate and portray ourselves through objects".... Steinbach "curates", or collects and presents, groupings of objects in large-scale architectural interventions; the viewer is invited to move through these enviroments. His Berkeley project "Work in Progress: Objects for People /Snapshots" investigates how the objects that make up our lives mandate our daily rituals. While Steinbach has been included in hundreds of solo and group exhibitions around the world, including the 1997 Venice Biennale and the 2000 Biennale d´Art Contemporain de Lyon, this exhibition is his first solo museum show in the United States.
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