Julian Göthe
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Smashing, 2006
Born: 1966, Berlin
Based: Cologne
Represented by: Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne; Cabinet, London
Göthe was born in Berlin in 1966. Recent exhibitions include: ‘Living with Design’, Cabinet, London (2004); ‘Flesh at War with Enigma’, Kunsthalle Basel (2004); ‘The Future Has A Silver Lining. Genealogies of Glamour’, Migros Museum, Zurich (2004) and ‘Painted White in a Spirit of Rebellion’, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne (2003). Göthe lives and works in Berlin.
Straddling shadowy pragmatic boundaries where bourgeois interiors and movie sets merge, Göthe’s creations of folded paper, metal and glass draw inspiration the idiosyncratic worlds of ‘post-functional’ interior design. His works have been described as a form of deadly furniture radiating both joy and threat. They include Darkness has reached its end (2004), a sculpture made of chiffon gathered and shrouded over insect-like metal scaffolds, a graceful black widow monument to Gilbert Poillerat and the anxious science fiction prophets of 1950s horror films. Elsewhere, a long-standing interest in bodybuilding and design is unravelled in glass vitrines adorned with photo silk screens of pneumatic hyper-masculine somatotypes and flowing abstract ink drawings.
