MARKUS SCHINWALD

Markus Schinwald is in the gallery, showing a site-specific installation of new and recent work.

He gives inanimate objects personalities of their own: they have good moods, bad moods, nervous tics, and psychological baggage. His paintings, sculptures, and installations have “issues,” in the way that most relationships do. Conversely, he also imagines a world where a state of mind could give rise to an object. “What if,” the work asks, “a moment of anxiety could generate a neck brace?” Clearly, this gives a whole new meaning to what we say when we talk about prosthetics.

This exhibition is jointly organized by CCA Wattis Institute and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. It is part of SFMOMA's New Work series, which is generously supported by the museum's Collectors Forum, the founding patron of the series.