PARASOPHIA 京都国際現代芸術祭2015

Brandt Junceau
b. 1959 in Poughkeepsie, NY, USA; based in Berlin and New York

Works in the exhibition
Liebespaar (Lovers), 2015
Installation with two over life-size plaster figures in two separate museum vitrines
Installed at Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art

Muse, 2015
Installation with two mounted bronze masks, facing each other
Installed at the Horikawa Housing Complex (Kamichoja-machi Building)

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After graduating from Bard College in 1981, Brandt Junceau began working as an artist based in New York, exhibiting sculptures and drawings, and as an essayist writing on sculptors and their work. In 1991 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Sculpture and a Pollock-Krasner Artist’s Grant, and began working in Rome in a residence at the American Academy. There he had the opportunity to immerse himself in the sculpture of the ancient world. In 2010 he was awarded a grant from DAAD (the German Academic Exchange Service), and went to live and work in Berlin, where he interacted with researchers in a wide range of disciplines extending beyond art, going on to exhibit work at various venues in Europe. In addition to shows in New York, Berlin, and Brussels, his solo exhibition Vandal was held at the Freud Museum in Vienna. While Junceau frequently employs the traditional sculptural methods of plaster moldmaking and casting, he also works in terra cotta, a technique in use since prehistoric times, exploring the forms that fire his imagination and producing repeated studies of them. In his recent exhibitions he has revealed his working process by showing the successive states a sculpture goes through, a reflection of his interests in the theme of time in psychoanalysis and in archaeological relics. Junceau has been invited to create a new work for Parasophia: Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture 2015.

• Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
• Horikawa Housing Complex