30/05/2026
Today is 's birthday!✨
Some installation views of his solo exhibition "The Artist, Wearing a Mask of Adolph Menzel, Holds Plaster Casts of the Ambidextrous German Painter’s Left and Right Hands (and Other Interventions)" on view at Kunst Museum Winterthur, until 5 July 2026.
With "The Artist, Wearing a Mask of Adolph Menzel, Holds Plaster Casts of the Ambidextrous German Painter’s Left and Right Hands", Simon Starling not only draws on motifs from the German realist's paintings, he also dedicates a sculpture to him. This affectionate ‘homage’, a double portrait, depicts the younger artist holding two plaster casts of the German painter’s hands, made during Menzel’s lifetime; one holding a paint brush, the other a pencil. The British artist developed this Starling- Menzel figure as part of an ongoing body of work entitled Project for an Exhibition (2024 – 2026), in which Starling pays an idiosyncratic tribute to numerous past collaborators; artists, designers, musicians and scientists, who have been key to the development of many of his previous works. Here, these individuals are co-opted as fellow ‘museum guides’ bringing there own specialism and interests to bare on the collection.
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