Atelier Van Lieshout

Sport Nouveau

2003

Wood, steel
Various works

The series of sports equipment, Sport Nouveau, are the Art Nouveau answer to  the undesigned apparatuses in Sportopia, the installation that AVL made especially for the Sao Paulo Biennale last year. Sportopia measures six by twenty-three meters and consists of three different departments. The first is a sporting area with a variety of body-building equipment. On the other side of this installation, there is the sex department with equipment that fulfils a wide range of sexual needs, from group sex to bestiality. And on the upper floor, one finds the department dedicated to communal living and utopia.

Sport Nouveau (2003) was part of the following exhibition(s):
‘Design Art’, Kunsthal, Rotterdam (NL), 2014
‘Das Haus’, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen (DE), 2008 – 2009

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