BRUNO GIRONCOLI. PROTOTYPES OF A NEW SPECIES

The Austrian artist Bruno Gironcoli (1936–2010) is one of the most important sculptors of his generation. Beginning in the early 1960s, drawing on his never-ending inventive voracity he created a highly idiosyncratic and remarkable oeuvre rendered in a very personal and individual visual language. In groups of ever-new works he succeeded each time in finding an unmistakable and yet surprising voice. Wire sculptures gave way to hollow-body forms, polyester objects, and disconcerting environments. Gironcoli’s work always focused on the individual and his abysses. The artist shared his existential questions and politically motivated avant-garde thought with fellow artists of the Viennese scene. His aesthetics of exorbitance and opulence constantly gave rise to excrescences and curlicues and have inspired numerous younger artists. In 1977, the eccentric Gironcoli took over the direction of the School of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. For the first time, he began to create sculptures that filled or frequently even defied space, made possible through the generous studio situation.

More https://www.schirn.de/en/exhibitions/2019/bruno_gironcoli/