Review: Birgit Jürgenssen, Galerie Hubert Winter
Yuki Higashino, frieze
April 2013
Four pieces of thin iron bars are welded together to form a neat rectangle. Matte-coated, the piece has an elegant yet robustly industrial look. One can see some rust and damage on its surface, results of the decades it has spent in storage. Rather than a forgotten minimalist sculpture, this is one of the purpose-built frames from late Austrian artist Birgit Jürgenssen’s photographic series Stoffarbeiten (Cloth Works) produced between the late 1980s and early 1990s. […]