Daniel

One of some one hundred figures made during Althamer’s project Almech at the Deutsche Guggenheim. From his father’s plastics-manufacturing company, the artist transferred some machines to the gallery. The exhibition space was turned into a sculptor’s studio, where factory machines and molten plastic poured over a metal frame replaced chisel and marble. The faces of the figures are portraits of members of the gallery staff, bank clerks and visitors. The subjects portrayed were able to participate in shaping their own statues. The eponymous Daniel was an employee of the technical department at the Deutsche Guggenheim at the time that the exhibition took place.

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