Michael Stumpf
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Chopchuckchuck in the Woods, 2005
Born: 1969, Mannheim
Based: Glasgow
Represented by: Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow
Born in Mannheim, Germany in 1969, Stumpf gained a Diploma from the State Academy of Fine Art, Karlsruhe (2001) and an MFA from Glasgow School of Art (2004). He served as a committee member of Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, and was co-founder and curator of kaiserpassage, Karlsruhe. Recent exhibitions include the State Academy of Fine Art, Karlsruhe, The Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, east International, Norwich, Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago and Spectacle Gallery, Birmingham. Stumpf lives and works in Glasgow.
Stumpf’s lovingly-made mixed-media objects, installations and text-based works possess an engaging cryptic quality, an aspect of the power of visual art to assert its resemblance to linguistic form. In this case, the throttling ciphers of vine, noose, chain, and rope – as well as dangling urban Pandora’s-boxes – possess a morbid syntax; what Rosalind Krauss might call ‘Sculpture in the Expanded Forest’ for its pungent element of Germanic gothic. Filtered through these dark collisions of nature and culture and a contemporary affinity for day-to-day materials is a persistent yearning for imaginative autonomy, as when the inanimate articles of folklore assume a life apart from their creator’s Ovidian whims.
