After retiring from his namesake label in 2005, inventive polymath Helmut Lang turned his consideration to artwork, culling his in depth garment archive into uncooked materials for his large-scale sculptures. Although his private assortment of the model is not, having been reworked into artworks and donated to artwork and trend collections world wide, Lang’s fascination with supplies’ second life stayed central to his follow.
Now, Lang’s chimeric sculptures are coming to Los Angeles in What stays behind, his newest solo exhibition housed on the Schindler Home of the MAK Middle. Curated by Neville Wakefield, the present explores, within the artist’s personal phrases, an affinity for supplies “with a previous, components with irreplaceable presence and with scars and recollections of a former objective.”
Lang fills the room of the hallowed house together with his ghostly presences, evoking each collective histories and unknown futures. The supplies – as soon as mushy and malleable – are reworked into hardened, fist-like types, their pasts nonetheless evident in marks and impressions. Crafted from mattress foam, rubber and wax, his sculptures provide a research of supplies, considerable in that means, reminiscence and risk, ensuing not in a static physique of labor, however a liminal house the place type ebbs and flows in a relentless state of turning into.
What stays behind can be on view in Los Angeles from February 19 by means of Might 4, 2025.
MAK Middle for Artwork and Structure
Schindler Home
835 North Kings Street,
West Hollywood, CA 90069
