Michael Beutler works with large sculptural gestures, creating installations oscillating between space-filling and fragile, constructed from materials
developed for everyday utilisation readily available in DIY stores, build-ing material dealers and hardware shops. These works presented with poetry and wittiness evolve in an experimental process. Beutler designs and builds utensils and machines which produce the objects, involving third parties in this process. The location of presentation is therefore simultaneously the location of production: a museum or exhibition hall is transformed into a workshop and laboratory. The long list of participations in national and international exhibitions and institutions devoting solo exhibitions to this artist provides evidence of the widespread confidence in the results of Beutler’s unpredictable working methods.
For the Großer Garten in Herrenhausen, Beutler will have coloured drinking straws pressed into bales like the straw bales seen in fields in the countryside. The results of this agricultural spectacle will remain in the garden for the duration of the festival and can be utilised by visitors. Michael Beutler who studied at the Städelschule
in Frankfurt am Main and the Glasgow School of Art has already made a previous appearance at the festival: in 2012, he participated in the Akademie der Spiele working with youngsters to create colourful in-stallations made out of bamboo sticks and woollen thread.
INSTALLATION Michael Beutler
CURATOR Leonore Leonardy
Kindly supported by PALANDT Landmaschinen GmbH
- Alte Herrenhäuser Straße 1
- 30419 Hannover
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