Galerija Gregor Podnar is pleased to announce its second solo exhibition of B. Wurtz. Presenting a selection of Wurtz’s works from the first two decades of his artistic practice, the exhibition aims to highlight the formation of Wurtz’s idiosyncratic formal vocabulary during the 1970s and 1980s. From the 1970s onwards, Wurtz has been using commonplace materials that relate to the basic categories of life – food, clothing, shelter – to create sculptures that probe and explore the notions of monumentality and the quotidian. Combining and amending these materials, Wurtz began to cast the familiar in a new light while preserving the integrity of the used objects. With great attention to the range of the chosen materials and a nuanced sensibility for composition, Wurtz has been since the early works transforming fragments of the ordinary into sculptures of wit and poetic composure.
B. Wurtz was born in 1948 in Pasadena, California, and lives and works in New York. His recent exhibitions include retrospective exhibitions at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (2015), and at La Casa Encendida, Madrid (2016), as well as group exhibitions Brand New: Art and Commodity in the 1980s at Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (2018), and A Page from My Intimate Journal (Part I) at Gordon Robichaux, New York (2018). In 2012 Wurtz was awarded the Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant.
The exhibition opening will be accompanied by the launch of Philosophy from B to Z, a publication by Zulu Press featuring a rich selection of works by B. Wurtz together with three texts written by the artist.

Opening:
Friday, April 27, 2018 | 6–9 pm

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