/internal/media/dispatcher/108419/fullMaternal, Paternal1968–1972[Bruno Gironcoli]Bruno GironcoliPolyester, wood, paint, metalWith 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.Sculpturehttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/9967/rdf