Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum CS

-Tobias Rehberger –
The chicken-and-egg-no-problem wall-painting
22 February until 25 May 2008Stedelijk Museum CS

The chicken-and-egg-no-problem wall-painting is the new

installation that Tobias Rehberger (1966, Esslingen, Germany)

realizes especially for the Stedelijk Museum. The artist

creates this seventy metres long work, using a selection of more

than forty of his sculptures, environments and video

pieces produced over the last fifteen years. In situ,

he will add a light plan and mural paintings
The title of the exhibition, is a reference by Rehberger to his

production method, which involves the creation of new

installations out of previous installations. The artist keeps on

asking himself: Which came first: the chicken or the egg?

And where do art works come from and where do they lead?

The same question can be applied to this exhibition:

is it a retrospective exhibition of sculptural work?

Or do the individual objects simply form the raw material

for an entirely new work: a painting in light and shadow on a

gallery wall? info: http://www.stedelijkmuseum.nl/