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Schotenkopf-Migof

Podhead Migof
1970 - 1971

Bernard Schultze

(1915-2005)

Material / Technik
wire
Leinen
Farbe
Kategorie des Exponats
Skulptur
Gattung
Installation
Erwerbungsjahr
1972
Maße
195,00 cm x 80,00 cm x 60,00 cm
Location

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Intro

Bernard Schultze invented the word »Migof« to describe a group of works whose bizarre forms are reminiscent of chimera: part plant, part insect, and part human. Beginning with abstract relief pictures in the 1950s, the artist’s »Migof«” figures soon expanded into the exhibition space.

Applying scraps of cloth soaked in clay onto wire skeletons, which he subsequently painted, Schultze created bizarre figures within which contradictions coexist: growth and decay, flowering and dissolution, vitality and mutation. The »Migof« sculptures, which grew into groups of figures and environments in the 1970s, cannot be categorized according to a specific genre.

Half sculpture, half painting, »Podhead Migof« also lives from this ambiguous openness. Having started out as a painter of Art Informel—an abstract art movement after World War II—Schultze developed an independent form of pictorial expression with his »Migof« series, uniting fantasy and the subconscious in a surreal manner.

Creditline

Kunsthalle Mannheim

Inhalt und Themen
plants and flowers
Insekten
people
evanescence
metamorphosis
abstraction
Mischwesen
single figure
polychrom polychromatic
organic forms
disassociation
rough (surface)
blunt
animals

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