Gregor Schneider began working on Haus u r in 1985 at the age of sixteen. The rooms on view here are part of his ever-changing construction and reproduction of the interior of his house in Rheydt, Germany. This work is built within his house and is contained—by a slight scaling down—within the rooms that the work exactly replicates. .Schneider’s work reveals evidence of his various layers of construction, the elaborate process of their making, and the intense materiality involved in re-creating an entire home.Haus u r is a quotation and extension of the original that reveals how an apparently normal and benign space can trap and disorient through illusion and mystery.
Gregor Schneider is possibly one of my favourite artists - I have admired his work for many years and will for many years to come! Die Famille Schneider is also well worth looking up.
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[IMAGES: artist's website, TEXT: cmoa.org]
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