Work from the Collection

Lyrikknappschaft Auswurt

Artist: Michaela Eichwald

Date of creation: 2010

Medium: Assemblage

Materials: Chinese noodles, Collar, Resin, Seeds

Collection: Lafayette Anticipations - Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin

Date of acquisition: 2013

Michaela Eichwald, Lyrikknappschaft Auswurt, 2010, Collection Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin © DR

While Michaela Eichwald is primarily known for her pictorial work associated with abstract expressionism, she has also tried her hand at sculpture, with works that question artistic language and the materiality of creation. Following on from new realism and its “poetic recycling of the real”, as art critic Pierre Restany put it in 1960, she reuses unexpected elements of everyday life (such as noodles or a thermometer) in an experimental and humorous way. She invites the viewer to question the meaning of these objects, in particular through the use of resin, which is suggestive of immortality, in contrast with consumer products. This approach is reinforced by her choice of titles, which are at odds with the work they describe, like Lyrikknappschaft Auswurt (“Poetry tourist bureau”), a linguistic invention that echoes the self-deprecating uhutrust.com blog where the artist shares her daily life and her thoughts.

Text written by Louise Glodt-Chauchoy as part of the partnership between the École du Louvre and Lafayette Anticipations – Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin.

Exhibition

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Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (France)
from 11 Oct 2019 to 16 Feb 2020

À propos de l'artiste

Michaela Eichwald

Born in 1967 in Allemagne

Michaela Eichwald a d’abord créé des œuvres plastiques avant de se consacrer entièrement à sa pratique artistique. La place du corps comme outil dans sa démarche picturale, ce qui la rapproche de la performance, est l’une de ses particularités. Comme elle a étudié la littérature et la philosophie, elle construit son œuvre en relation étroite avec l’écriture, consignant ses textes, pensées et notes de travail sur son blog uhutrust.com.

Née en 1967, Michaela Eichwald vit et travaille à Berlin (Allemagne).