White Trash Contemporary

White Trash Contemporary presents new works by Documenta-artist Mariella Mosler

Ornamental patterned cristal mirrors reflecting the emptiness of the space, wrinkled potatoes transfromed into seductive silver sculptures, foam and paper as models for solid bronze masks: Mariella Mosler plays with our perception, with the nature and illusion of things. Mosler, who was one of the most talked about artists at documenta X, transforms ordinary materials like sand, jelly fruits or human hair, often infused with symbolic meaning, into precious art objects.

Mariella Mosler is a professor for sculpture at the Kunsthochschule Stuttgart. She has a Master in fine arts and philosophy from the university in Hamburg. She had well received museum exhibitions at the Sprengel Museum in Hannover, the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn, the Herzliya Museum in Tel Aviv and the Kirin Art Space in Tokio. In 2004 she was nominated for the prestigious Gabriele Münter prize. In 1997 Mosler transformed the tower gallery of the Fridericianum in Kassel into a meticulolous graphic sand sculpture - one of the most memorable works at documenta X.

MARIELLA MOSLER

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“Mask”, cast bronze, enamel lacquered, 10.6”x 9”, unique, 2006

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