Tobias rehberger biography of michael

  • He was born in 1966 in Esslingen, Germany and attended the Städelschule in Frankfurt/Main before he started working as an artist in the early nineties.
  • Tobias was born in 1966 in the postcard-perfect historical town of Esslinging am Neckar in Baden-Württemburg in Germany, not far from Stuttgart, home of.
  • Tobias Rehberger is a sort of sculptor.

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    Tobias Rehberger is one of the most influential and successful German artists of his generation.

    He was born in 1966 in Esslingen, Germany and attended the Städelschule in Frankfurt/Main before he started working as an artist in the early nineties.

    With his various forms of artistic output: sculptures, industrial objects and handcrafted articles, he explores the wider sphere of structural design and architecture, thriving on chance connections and unexpected encounters.

    The concept of transformation is the central theme of his art. Rehberger focuses his energies on the process of perception and of awareness, temporality and the sense of transience, discontinuity and ambiguity. His installations have been included in both the 50th and 53rd Venice Biennales and he exhibited - amongst others - at Whitechapel Gallery in London, Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, and Museum Ludwig in Cologne. In 2009 he won the Golden Lion for best artist for his sculptural installation at the

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    Tobias Rehberger

    ° 1966

    Works in Berlin (DE), lives in Frankfurt (DE), born in Esslingen am Neckar (DE).

    The multidisciplinary German artist Tobias Rehberger (b. 1966) reinterprets spaces – both museum and public spaces – bygd means of geometric objects, recurring colour patterns and planes of shadow and light. His conceptual oeuvre is a combination of architecture, design and film art.  Using recurring geometric motifs and optical illusions, he not only decorates buildings and interiors, but also objects, wall papper and design furniture. Through his constant exploration of the boundary between the public and the private space – primarily bygd emphasising it – the artist shows the impact of a personal intervention. Or the other way around: he shows how an artistic addition can become public property. In the same way, he also seeks to erase the boundaries of authorship and copyright. Rehberger regards all culture as public property, and uses it to unde

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    Gió Marconi

    TOBIAS REHBERGER
    "Beat me!.."

    March 11 - April 17, 2010

    Giò Marconi gallery is pleased to announce the third solo exhibition of German artist Tobias Rehberger: "beat me!.."

    On display on the gallery’s groundfloor are various groups of works: among them are the room-sized lamp installation "The great Disarray Swindle" (2009), a big binary clock with several images of Michael Jackson, two cuckoo clocks that reproduce the typical scream of the King op Pop, a number of glass boxes containing various digital prints and “C'il Eam Habbim” (2005), a shooting range that has been shown in the gardens of Villa Manin in 2005.

    The over-all theme of the show is the iconic figure of Michael Jackson. In recycling a contemporary icon such as Michael Jackson, Rehberger’s approach is not that of a pop artist who is romanticizing about his idol, he much rather recognizes the variety of forms the icon can represent and the cultural implications they e

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