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Irene Schüller
Germany
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20 pieces
Artist highlights
- Featured in gallery curations
Artwork details
- Medium : Acrylic, Stainless Steel Without Stand
- Dimensions : Length: 196.9in, Height: 110.2in, Depth: 157.5in
About this artwork
Irene Schueller’s „Swings“ explore the physical boundaries of artistic exuberance. Rocking is a highly complex physical process. By shifting one’s own body center, the rocking works against gravitational and centrifugal force, producing kinetic energy. Using your body to experience height and speed is fun. Schueller’s artistic waggery stands beside the childish delight in rocking while posing mature questions. Swing frames usually consist of a simple…
and solid beam construction, firmly anchored in the ground. Schueller’s swings are much more complicated and provocative. The idea of safety is not the focus, but the question: How far can the statics be challenged? How ‘irrational’ can a construction be without collapsing? The scaffolding consists of apparently chaotically connected beams, uncleanly welded – actually an impossible construction, held together only by metal shoes at the breaking points. Since the racks are not anchored in the ground, but stand on wheels, swinging is...
Irene Schüller
Germany
Credentials
- Featured in gallery curations
Irene Schüller is a versatile artist who works in the fields of painting, drawing, installation, participatory projects and film. Her passion for art, which dates back to her childhood, continues to shape her work today.
Her paintings and drawings often focus on individuals. Using acrylic on canvas or precise lines on paper, she reduces the environment to the essentials and draws attention to physicality, humanity and individuality. Her keen eye for interpersonal dynamics enables her to capture emotional states and trigger deep resonance in the viewer.
Installations and participatory projects expand her practice through interactivity, while her films stage bodies and cultural forms as central narrative elements, both documentary and experimental. Irene Schüller's works combine different media to create a sensitive examination of human existence.
Her paintings and drawings often focus on individuals. Using acrylic on canvas or precise lines on paper, she reduces the environment to the essentials and draws attention to physicality, humanity and individuality. Her keen eye for interpersonal dynamics enables her to capture emotional states and trigger deep resonance in the viewer.
Installations and participatory projects expand her practice through interactivity, while her films stage bodies and cultural forms as central narrative elements, both documentary and experimental. Irene Schüller's works combine different media to create a sensitive examination of human existence.
