Bruno Gironcoli *
(Villach 1936–2010 Vienna)
„Soax Lup”, c. 1972, Cast aluminium, signed Gironcoli, titled Soax Lup and numbered 3/5, 152 x 80 x 65 cm
Illustrated and listed:
Bettina M. Busse. Bruno Gironcoli. die Skulpturen 1956–2008, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2008, p. 365/SE 10 (dimensions differ), see also p. 300 S-55-S-56
Provenance:
Private Collection
Ten years after Peter Weibel, Andrea Fraser (USA) and Christian Philipp Müller (cH) decided to go against the national selection criterion for the first time, the German Kasper König became the first foreign commissioner of the Austrian pavilion (Venice Biennale 2003). König exhibited six large-format sculptures by the then 67-year-old sculptor Bruno Gironcoli. The works spanned a period from the 1970s to the 1990s. König justified his decision in favour of Gironcoli by his personal fascination with his „... concise, disturbing details of wonderfully sculptural and symbolic things of political iconography with pseudo-sacred references [...]“ and emphasised Gironcoli’s formative influence on several generations of artists, including Franz West, through his position as Professor of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna...
From: Jasper Sharp, Österreich und die Biennale Venedig 1895-2013, Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2013
„nothing very different from what has already been prepared, simply sculptures with a certain appearance, with certain themes that are unique to them - and that‘s it“
Bruno Gironcoli - from the literature cited above
„nichts großartig anderes, als was sich schon vorbereitet hat, einfach Skulpturen mit einem gewissen Aussehen, mit bestimmten Themen, die eben nur diesen Skulpturen eigen sind- und das ist es auch schon“
Bruno Gironcoli- aus den oben angeführten Literaturen
