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Gesangskanarienmobile, 2009 Courtesy Esther Schipper, Berlin
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Swinging Curve, 2009 Courtesy Gagosian Gallery, London
Höller: It’s Playtime
Carsten Höller
A carousel in Berlin, a nightclub in London, slides at the Tate and a rentable hotel room
at the Gagosian: Carsten Höller is an artist who likes to have
fun. Participation and pleasure are key to his lively creations, which confront
metaphysical concerns—happiness, fear, love and mortality—with an
idiosyncratic sense of humor typified by works such as Hippopotamus, 2007 (a lifelike sculpture of a pink hippo) and
1997’s Myself-Onself (an exhibition
which featured, among other things, a human-sized hamster wheel). Höller’s
latest retrospective, Divided Divided, is
riddled with quirks, including a room with swinging walls and a mobile constructed
from caged, singing canaries. Divided
Divided opens at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen on February 6.
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