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Maternal, Paternal
Date1968–1972

Artist Bruno Gironcoli (1936 Villach – 2010 Wien)

ULAN

Object typeSculpture
MediumPolyester, wood, paint, metal
Dimensions
Gesamt: 268 × 560 × 285 cm
Signatureunlabelled
Inventory number9244
Location Currently not on display
With its distinctive and characteristic formal idiom, Bruno Gironcoli’s oeuvre occupies a singular position within the postwar avant-garde. In 1977, Gironcoli succeeds Fritz Wotruba as head of the School of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna; until his retirement in 2004, he exerts a defining influence over younger generations of visual artists. Defamiliarization, amalgamation, and encryption are the strategies with which he develops a complex universe of forms and symbols that culminates in monumental large-scale sculptures. In “Maternal, Paternal,” the artist grapples with existential themes including sexuality, parenthood, and the duality of male and female.

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1996 Ankauf Galerie Krinzinger, Wien

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