Reinhard Mucha

Place: Düsseldorf

Born: 1950

Biography:

Reinhard Mucha is a central figure in the cohort of artists known as the 'model makers' on account of their theatrically staged, maquette- or prop-like compositions. In his formative years as a student of Klaus Rinke at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Mucha developed a practice that uses the ground zero of sculpture after minimalism as a conceptual springboard for works that incorporate found objects, but also any kind of different industrial materials as well as photography and time-based media. The Düsseldorf-based artist strips found objects of their practical, ostensible purpose to expose sediments of time and lived history that have accumulated within them. His approach sheds critical light on the tacit norms and rules governing the institutional practices of contemporary art.