Vostell, WolfGerman, 1932–1998T.V. - En Concrete
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The Museum of Modern Art
New York, United States
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Meanwhile, in the life of Vostell, Wolf
The whole life1974
Discovers Malpartida de Cáceres
He visits the village of Malpartida de Cáceres in Extremadura and the nearby rocky landscape of Los Barruecos: the bizarre granite boulders remind him of his own concrete sculptures, and he declares the place a “work of art of nature”. In the midst of this “surreal” landscape stands the 18th-century Lavadero de Lanas, and Vostell resolves to create a “meeting place of art, life and nature” here.
1974
First major retrospective in Paris and Berlin
His first major retrospective takes place at ARC 2 in the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; an expanded version is shown at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin (other accounts give 1975).
1976
The municipality makes the Lavadero and Barruecos available to him
Vostell finds a supporter in the mayor, who also wins over the initially sceptical municipal council; in 1976 the municipality acquires the Lavadero site and makes it available to the artist together with the neighbouring part of Los Barruecos.
October 1976
The Museo Vostell Malpartida opens
The museum is ceremonially opened together with the sculpture “VOAEX” (“Concrete Journey through Upper Extremadura”), a concrete work set among granite rocks; Vostell also creates other works specially for it, such as the installation “Requiem for the Forgotten”.
