Bruno Gironcoli

Prototypes for a New Species
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt

Monumentale Skulpturen

The Austrian artist Bruno Gironcoli (b. 1936 in Villach; d. 2010 in Vienna¬) ranks among the most important sculptors of his generation. Starting in the early 1960s, he built a singular oeuvre, producing a succession of innovative series that unsparingly probed human existence in all its complexity and inscrutability. Gironcoli’s aesthetic of excess and opulence, an inexhaustible profusion of excrescences and flourishes, inspired numerous younger artists. He rose to international renown with the large sculptures of his late years, in which archetypal figures meld with everyday elements to form futuristic conglomerates. The monumental pieces have the air of prototypes for a new species, clad in alluringly gleaming surfaces of gold, silver, and copper.

The publication, published on the occasion of his major exhibition at SCHIRN KUNSTHALLE FRANKFURT, surveys Gironcoli’s haunting late oeuvre, gathering central works. With an essay by Martina Weinhart and a foreword by Philipp Demandt.

Current exhibition
February 14  – May 12, 2019: Bruno Gironcoli, Prototypes for a New Species, SCHIRN KUNSTHALLE FRANKFURT