Pirelli HangarBicocca (Milan) presents “Doubt”, Carsten Höller’s solo exhibition. The German artist has risen to the fore of the international scene for his penetrating inquiry into the nature of human experience.
Directly engaging the viewer in his art, Höller’s practice revolves around the search for new ways of inhabiting our world. His work summons upon different states of mind: joy, illusion, and of course, “doubt”, which opens the door to new ways of perceiving reality.
The exhibition, curated by Vicente Todolí, unfolds along twinned, parallel paths, demanding sensory participation and perceptual focus on part of the viewers. The visitors themselves can choose how to approach the exhibition and which path to take. In Carsten Höller’s view, choice is inherent to the work of art, and at the very beginning of the exhibition, the installation Y (2003), which is lined with numerous flashing light bulbs and can be walked through in its entirety, raises the question of which way to go.
“Doubt” includes more than twenty large-scale works, both existent and new, aligned along the middle axis of the space. This alignment of works forms a central dividing wall, where visitors will see/experience only half of a given work, and have to remember the half they have seen until they encounter the other half on the other side.
Carsten Höller – Doubt
7.04.2016 – 31.07.2016
Images courtesy of the artist and Pirelli HangarBicocca. Photos by Attilio Maranzano
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