Herbert Boeckl - Hans Josephsohn

Since the Italian Renaissance, the increasingly prominent question of a hierarchy of the arts, one that fueled, among other things, the rivalry between painting and sculpture, came to an end with the advent of modernism. In this exhibition, where the work of a sculptor encounters that of a painter, the intention is not to revive the paragone debate in art-theoretical terms, but rather to stage a dialogue between two artistic personalities who, despite their differences in historical, spatial, and cultural contexts, reveal striking analogies both in formal aesthetics and in the phenomenology of their work. This juxtaposition of Herbert Boeckl (1894–1966) and Hans Josephsohn (1920–2012), who never met during their lifetimes, nevertheless highlights fundamental parallels in their understanding of corporeality, materiality, and the process of form-finding.