17.02. – 28.08.2022.
Waking modern sculpture from a deep sleep!
In her works, Lena Henke experiments with both technically innovative manufacturing processes and traditional craftsmanship, which she connects thematically with the here and now. The preoccupation with materiality, surface and (de)forming as a creative process is the focus of her works.
In the baroque Carlone Hall in the Upper Belvedere, a yellow elephant seems to be sleeping. Or is it after all the overturned arches of an architecture?
The elephant’s sleep is both the allegorical sleep of modern sculpture and the dream of a utopian realization as built architecture.
Architecture, urban planning, public space, urbanity, and dialogue with found environments are recurring themes in Henke’s sculptural work. With the title, the artist refers to the 20th century Milanese architect, architectural theorist and designer Aldo Rossi.
Lena Henke: Aldo Rossi’s Sleeping Elephant
17.02. – 28.08.2022
Oberes Belvedere
Prinz Eugen-Straße 27
1030 Wien
www.belvedere.at
