Lionel Maunz
I visited MoMA PS1,
the museum of modern art on Monday. I went with my friend around 4:00pm till
6:00pm. I wish I could have stay a little bit longer because at the end most of
the works were getting more interesting. Anyway two hours was enough to admire
most of the works in this museum. The work that coughed my eye the most is this
one from Lionel Maunz. This work is titled “Fertilize my mouth” which is a sculpture
made of cast iron, concrete and steel. Maunz made a lot of sculptures of different
figurative forms, and in all of them he used Cast iron and concrete material.
The works of Lionel Maunz are based on his vision of the body as a fulminating,
grinding, butchered thing. He reinforces a sense by incorporating materials
like hair, bone, and semen. Mainz’s works forms suggest artifacts excavated
from the aftermath of a catastrophe.
This specific work consists of a concrete ramp over which
spills a sprawling, formless and object mass. At first resembling the melted
ruins of a building destroyed by fire, upon closer inspection the bronze mass
depicts textural fragments. At the base of the ramp stand two dismembered iron
legs whose scale evokes a child’s body and whose upright positioning and abrupt
truncation suggests the aftermath of a sudden violence.
