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Iron chain, bronzed, welded Vienna, Austria, 1989 Design: Franz West (1947-2012) - Austrian artist Edition: Edition Meta-Memphis, Milan Single-light fixture Height: 188 cm Very good condition USP: This floor light, entitled 'Artist's Private lamp II', was designed by Austrian artist Franz West in 1989. It was distributed by Meta-Memphis, Milan. It is made from a welded iron chain. It is not a standard design object, since Franz West was more of an artist than a designer. From the late 1980s, he started to explore the boundaries between art objects and everyday objects. He created seating and lamps with designs influenced by alienation that weren't necessarily supposed to be understood by the public. 'Artist's Private Lamp II' plays on the contradiction of the heavy metal and its seemingly floating state. West, whose credo was "art for art's sake" shows here that a simple utility object such as a lamp can also be transformed into an art object when it is created in this way. The floor light is a single-light fixture. It is 188 cm tall and in very good condition. Franz West (1947-2012) Franz West was born in Vienna, 1947. In 1977, he began his studies under Bruno Grincoli at the Academy for Fine Arts in Vienna, from which he graduated in 1982. In 1992/93, he took up a teaching position at the Städel School in Frankfurt am Main, which was followed by several awards, including the Wolfgang Hahn Prize of the Society for Modern Art at the Ludwig Museum, Cologne, in 1998. In 2011, he received the Golden Lion at the 54th Biennale di Venezia, with which he was honored for his life's work. West's most important exhibitions included the New York Museum of Modern Art in 1997, the Hamburg Deichtorhallen in 2002 and the Vienna Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) in 2008. Franz West was one of the most important contemporary Austrian artists ever. Shipping costs excl. statutory VAT and plus 2,5% (+VAT) shipping insurance.