WALTER PICHLER – SCULPTURES, DRAWINGS, MODELS
2025-04-07Comprising fourteen works from across Pichler’s rich career, the show highlights the wide range of mediums in which he practiced, including photography, sculpture, and drawing, as well as his exploration of architecture, history, and the relationship between the human body and technology. This exhibition marks a special tribute to late gallery founder Barbara Gladstone, as it was the last presentation she actively oversaw, in close dialogue with Shao and the Walter Pichler Estate. Walter Pichler shunned the limelight of the artworld and the art market, adopting, instead, the quiet surroundings of his home in Saint Martin, a small village in southeastern Austria, where he lived from 1973 until his death. It was there that he built a series of buildings to house his sculptures.
In all his work lies a profound synergy between space and form. This fluid exchange between the built environment and sculpture has at its source a small figurine, perhaps a Christ figure, that he found in a barn on his land when he first arrived. He was inspired to build an altar for it and converted the building into a specially- designed receptacle to house this enigmatic item.
Opposite – Ohne Titel (Untitled), 1985
Exhibition runs through to August 1st, 2025
Gladstone Gallery
Gladstone 64
130 East 64th Street
NY 10065 New York
