See available sculpture, design, and works on paper for sale and learn about the artist. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. View Franz West’s 1,702 artworks on artnet. He went through a “furniture phase” – who hasn’t? – where he’d create strange things made of welded iron rods, or a chair that looks like the spearmint-green offspring of a boat and a roller-coaster. Franz West was an Austrian sculptor and Conceptual artist. The most impressive are room-sized things resembling toothpaste-swirls and floating pink bacteria. Some sit atop plinths and one or two have plinths perched on atop them.Īs he got older, his sculptures got bigger. These are wild, scraggly things, many of which incorporate objects like hats or, more often, empty wine bottles. Later he worked on more legitimate sculptures, which he called his Legitimate Sculptures. The originals are too fragile for Tate Modern visitors to mess around with, but replicas are on hand, as are curtained-off areas where people can play with the art in private (God knows what might happen behind those sheets). One looks like a giant ham, another like a stingray peering through a telescope. Franz West’s career path (Vienna, 1947) has led him to become one the most recognised central-European artists on todays scene. Others are just daft, amorphous blobs of papier mache and metal that can be slung over one’s shoulder or worn as a hat. One glued a pair of sandals to a board and invited people to step into them, becoming the art. He’s perhaps most famous for his “passstűcke” or “adaptive” sculptures, which visitors were encouraged to play about with.
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