Tobias Rehberger
Tobias Rehberger (born June 2, 1966) is a German sculptor, born in Esslingen am Neckar[1]
Work
Rehberger works in the wider sphere of design and architecture, and his art is difficult to categorize. He has created an idyllic Japanese garden in the middle of Manhattan; Pop-inspired wallpaper consisting of photographs of his organs; a series of Modernist-looking treehouses in a park in northern Germany; and an enormous tanker based on a crude boat that the father of a friend built to escape from Vietnam.[2]
For his art-car series, a project that he began in 1999, Rehberger sent simple sketches, composed essentially from memory, of a Porsche 911 and a McLaren F1 to a manufacturer in Thailand. There were no measurements or schematics included. The only parameters were that the cars had to be driveable and built to human scale.[3]
Rehberger also spent some time in Cameroon, where he provided native crafts workers with his crude drawings of well-known modernist chairs and asked them to recreate the designs. The results were filled with cultural misreadings: Alvar Aalto's classic three-legged stool, for instance, was given an extra leg for stability.[4]
On the east side of Madison Square Park in New York, Rehberger in 2001 created Tsutsumu, an elegant Japanese garden made up of a large bonsai tree, a bench and a rock. Early in the morning, even on sweltering August days, the Public Art Fund sprayed the garden with four inches of man-made snow.[5]
Rehberger received the Golden Lion award for best artist at the 2009 Venice Biennale.[6] In December 2011, he unveiled his public sculpture Obstinate Lighthouse, commissioned by the City of Miami Beach. In 2012, he was commissioned to design a 700 square feet (65 square metres) project space in the Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art in Seoul, Korea.[7] Rehberger designed an exclusive collection of purses and bags for the German fashion label MCM in 2016.[6]
Exhibitions (selection)
- Kunsthalle Basel 1998
- Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 1998
- Sprengel Museum, Hannover 1998
- Geläut - bis ich's hör '...' ', Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, 2002
- Bitte ... danke ', Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart, 2003/2004
- Private matters Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2004
- Cancelled projects , Museum Fridericianum, Cassel, 1995
- Home and away and outside installation , Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, 2014[8]
- New York Bar Oppenheimer, Hotel Americano, New York, 2013[9]
- Dazzle Ship London, HMS President, London, 2014[10][11]
Recognition
- Förderpreis des Internationalen Kunstpreises of Baden-Württemberg Landes, 1999
- Ten-Preis 2001
- Karl-Ströher-Preis 2003
- Golden Lion for Best Artist that responded to the 2009 theme "Fare Mondi // Making Worlds" Venice Biennale
Notes and references
- ↑ Tobias Rehberger Bio, artnet Database.
- ↑ Maura Egan (October 8, 2006), The Provocateur T: The New York Times Style Magazine.
- ↑ Maura Egan (October 8, 2006), The Provocateur T: The New York Times Style Magazine.
- ↑ Andrea Codrington (January 15, 1998), Public Eye New York Times.
- ↑ Carol Vogel (May 25, 2001), Art in the Park New York Times.
- 1 2 Williams, Maxwell (June–July 2016). "Razzle Dazzle: Sculptor Tobias Rehberger teams with MCM on a striking bag collection". W. Condé Nast. 45 (5): 64.
- ↑ Tobias Rehberger: ‘ sex and friends’, January 13 - February 16, 2012 Pilar Corrias, London.
- ↑ Frankfurt show review, The Guardian
- ↑ Tobias Rehberger's NY Bar Oppenheimer, Dezeen Magazine.
- ↑ "DAZZLE SHIP – LONDON". 14-18 NOW. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
- ↑ "Artist Tobias Rehberger docks his 'dazzle' warship on London's River Thames". wallpaper.com. Retrieved 25 June 2015.