Modern Art Oxford presents Michael Sailstorfer Clouds on view 12 March – 22 May 2011.
Modern Art Oxford hosts recent work by Michael Sailstorfer in his first solo presentation in the UK. Sailstorfer’s project is the latest in a series for The Yard space at the Gallery.
Through the transformation of everyday objects and materials, Sailstorfer creates sculptural interventions, both in the gallery space and the public realm. His work often explores movement, displacement and flight, and is infused with a poetic and humorous sensibility. Deconstruction and dispersal are common in his process of making. Past pieces have included dismantling and reconstructing a glider plane to build a tree house (D-IBRB, 2002), re-shaping a German police van as a drum kit (Schlagzeug, 2003), and using explosives to propel a fruit tree into the air (Raketenbaum, 2008).
For The Yard space Sailstorfer will present a new version of recent work Wolken (Clouds) (2010). Large industrial tyre inner tubes of different sizes are inflated, twisted and bunched to create a cluster of simple, ‘cartoonish’ black rubber forms. These will be suspended across the ceiling of The Yard, intervening in the architecture through a play with form, weight and volume.
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