Contemporary Sculptures — A1129: Spotlight: Contemporary
Katharina Grosse is a German artist. As an artist, Grosse's work employs a use of architecture, sculpture and painting. She is known for her large-scale, site-related installations to create immersive visual experiences. She has been using an industrial paint-sprayer to apply prismatic swaths of color to a variety of surfaces since the late 1990s, and often uses bright, unmixed sprayed-on acrylic paints to create both large-scale sculptural elements and smaller wall works.
Yuji Takeoka is a Japanese and German sculptor who lives and works in Düsseldorf.
He studied sculpture at Kyoto University of the Arts and at the Academy of Fine Arts Düsseldorf. Known for his "pedestal sculptures," Yuji Takeoka creates elaborate sculptures that emphasize the relationship between the object and the outside world. At the conceptual level of his work, Takeoka creates unique drawings called "Plans.
