The Wattis Institute, San Francisco

Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts / 360 Kansas Street
CA 94103-5130 San Francisco

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Markus Schinwald is showing a site-specific installation of new and recent work. He gives inanimate objects personalities of their own: They have good moods, bad moods, nervous tics, and psychological baggage. His paintings, sculptures, and installations have "issues" in the way most relationships do. Conversely, he also imagines a world where a state of mind could give rise to an object. "What if," the work asks, "a moment of anxiety could generate a neck brace?"