
Recent exhibitions include “Burning,” Musée d’Art Contemporain, Marseille (2002) “Franzwestite: Franz West-Works 1973–2003,” Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (2003) “We’ll Not Carry Coals,” Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (2003) “Recent Sculptures,” Lincoln Center and Doris C. His work has been a fixture in countless international survey exhibitions all over the world. He studied at the Academy of Applied Arts from 1977 to 1982. This example of the Franz West 'Chain' Lighting Fixture was purchased in the middle of the 1990s by the previous owner and was made under designers controlĪ fine example of the Metamemphis period that’s should be included in any collection from this period, a major retrospective of his work will open at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, in fall of 2018, which will then travel to the Tate Modern, London, the following year.įranz West was born in 1947 in Vienna, and died in 2012 in Vienna.

About 'While delicate in appearance, the playful twists and curves of a dancing-like Franz West light fixture are rendered in one of the most unforgiving materials: welded iron'
