Peter Buggenhout, No Shade in Paradise
Neues Museum Nürnberg, Allemagne
2017

Neues Museum Nuremberg is hosting the first major solo show in Germany of the Belgian artist Peter Buggenhout (born 1963, lives and works in Ghent, Belgium), whose work
has already featured in many exhibitions internationally. A cross-section of his oeuvre with new large-format works and spatial interventions will be shown in the main exhibition hall and in the rooms of the permanent collection.

The series The Blind Leading The Blind consists of gigantic bodies covered with thick layers of dark dust. The consistency of their surfaces swallows the light. They look like wrecks salvaged from the deep, certainly from some other world, captured in time, preserved in decay. This impression is rendered in material terms by the dust that acts as the incarnation of time, marking a standstill. The sculptures in the Mont Ventoux series – with their inscrutable, microcosmic surface of tanned cow's stomachs that have been turned inside-out and stuffed – are visual landscapes in their own right. Gorgo is a series of smaller-format sculptures whose characteristic substance consists of horse hair soaked in pig's blood. Their title refers to the sinister snake-haired beasts of Greek mythology. Buggenhout's legendary creatures, too, appear remote from our world, as if frozen at a specific point in their own decomposition. On Hold presents ominous coloured objects consisting of flotsam/jetsam, leftovers and found items – in a fraught combination with inflated objects.