mapping the region - Olaf Metzel
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Patio at the Gustav-Lübcke-Museum, Hamm / Photo: Heinz Feußner
Olaf Metzel, born 1952 in Berlin, is one of Germany's most important contemporary sculptors. He represents "formative sculpture" and his approach is based on the idea that "production equals provocation".
As always using social criticism, Menzel picks up on feelings, problems and topics he has observed in Duisburg and the Ruhr metropolis, be they from everyday life, from school or from the region’s media landscape.
The RuhrArtMuseums' comprehensive "Mapping the Region" project wants to enable people to experience the Ruhr region's cities and landscapes topographically, geographically and semiotically. Olaf Metzel picks up on this concept and interprets physical, urban, social and museum spaces through his creations. "Region" thereby becomes a real-life network of living, social, historic and individual meanings and identities.
February - May 2010
MKM Museum Küppersmühle for Modern Art, Duisburg
The exhibition is part of the Ruhr art museums' "Mapping the Region" project.