Atelier Van Lieshout

War

2017

Steel
60 x 44 x 71 cm

The gesamtkunstwerk The End of Everything is the artist’s reflection on art, the current market climate and a comment on human consumption patterns. With this work, Joep van Lieshout would like to ‘blaze a trail through this imbalance, to destroy and renew, start again with what is good – to recycle’.

The installation consists of a group of raw, industrial artworks – Der Fliegende Holländer, The Press, The Hammer and The Shredder. These may be interpreted as machines for either construction or destruction, as a negative or positive force, as a break from tradition and a change for the future. The primary goal is to recycle, be it scrap, consumer goods, artworks, even Joep van Lieshout’s own creations.

War (2017) was part of the following exhibition(s):
Ruhr Triennale, Bochum (DE), 2015
Ruhr Triennale, Bochum (DE), 2017
Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam (NL), 2018
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, Carpenter Workshop Gallery, New York (USA), 2020