Franz West

Born in 1947 in Vienna, he lives and works there.

Since the end of the 1970s, Franz West has been designing works in hybrid and organic forms which embrace sculpture as much as furniture and utilitarian objects and which only exist to the extent that they are used by a third party. His monumental pieces in painted aluminum are intended to invade and disrupt public space - inside and out, like physical and psychological growths.
     It is with an unprecedented creation that Franz West responds to the invitation in 2005 to exhibit in the basement of the Abattoirs, Musée – Frac Occitanie Toulouse, in the vast room known as “Picasso”. Agoraphobia shows a kind of spiral or Moébius ring irregular in its design as on its surface, like a root or a giant bramble that would have grown in immaculate space. Agoraphobia being a form of dizziness, this sculpture thus seems to give concrete reality to the sensation of vertigo.