Untitled and Lemur Head

Untitled and Lemur Head features two major, sharply contrasting visions of the installation. Rudolf Stingel embraces the straight line by putting a cubic kiosk on four steel pillars, while Franz West takes a fluid, biomorphic approach in Lemur Head. But superimposing the two works creates harmony: white apparitions made of metal and pierced by gaping openings, Untitled and Lemur Head come together in a reflection on the perception of art.

In the square in front of the Palazzo Grassi, West and Stingel collaborated on a composite piece that put their mature work into perspective. While West's celebrated Lemur Heads series marks the height of his experimental approach, Stingel's Untitled is part of a series of monumental installations aiming to disrupt our experience of the art object.

A brilliant introduction to the exhibition "Sequence 1" held in 2007 at the Palazzo Grassi, Untitled and Lemur Head by Rudolf Stingel and Franz West is in the Pinault Collection.