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Koko I
Sarah Ortmeyer
steel, plastics, aluminium
ca. 3 m
2015
Acquisition 2016
Inv. No. 0308
on loan
In 2015 and 2016, Sarah Ortmeyer exhibited her confrontations with escapism and greed in three separate shows in New York, Paris, and Vienna. The “Palm Tree” in the evn collection is from her solo exhibition Koko Paradise at Belvedere 21 in Vienna. The sheets, painted in various shades of gray, negotiate the themes of climate catastrophe, economic constraints, and dependencies on the so-called “good life” in ways that are as simple as they are catchy. The Western world’s longing for exoticism, which has been channeled in the motif of a palm tree for centuries, finds its contemporary equivalent here.
Heike Maier-Rieper, 2022 (translation: Virginia Dellenbaugh)
Continue readingExhibitions
Small Medium Large. Sculptures and Objects from the evn collection, evn sammlung, Maria Enzersdorf, 2022
Tapeti. Wallpaper and Artworks from the Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje and evn collection, Museum of Contemporary Art - Skopje
Publications
Lower Austria Contemporary 2017, St. Pölten 2017, p. 34
21er Raum im 21er Haus Wien, Vienna 2016
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