Atelier Van Lieshout

Operating Table

1984

Wood, copper, iron, concrete

Operating Table (1984), one of Van Lieshout’s earliest sculptures, exhibits his persistent obsession with science and the creative use of ethics and knowledge gained through experimentation. It was made to cure people, but it looks like a worn out butcher’s block, customized for obscure pleasures.

Operating Table (1984) was part of the following exhibition(s):
‘The CryptoFuturist and The New Tribal Labyrinth’, Pioneer Works, New York (USA), 2019
‘Das Haus’, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen (DE), 2008 – 2009