Christoph Broich's sculptures have come to stand for a willful sensitivity to the body and mortality.
Broich's hanging pieces - including The Girl Who Sold Her Soul to the Devil and Won, a piece referencing the story of Amanda Lear’s album “Sweet Revenge”- suggest an emptied and abandoned cocoon from which a huge butterfly has emerged.
The artist uses unusual materials such as old lace, sequined silk, tarlatan and latex and presents his sculptures in unconventional ways: In Untitled (2006) for example, hung from the legs and referencing Chaim Soutine’s carcass of beef, a transcended skin stands as a metaphor for the process of creativity; escaping the envelope of the body's physical limits.
Christoph Broich was born in Stadt Blankenberg, Germany. He graduated from The Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Belgium in 1994.
The artist had his first exhibition at envoy with “Never Mind The Bollocks: Here’s Amanda Lear,” in April 2006. As a follow-up to that exhibition, envoy presents Christoph Broich in a solo-project at the Slick art fair in Paris, France.
SLICK contemporary art fair
27.10.2006 - 30.10.2006
Preview: 26.10.2006 from 1pm
(on invitation only)
Vernissage: 26.10.2006 6pm till 12pm
(on invitation only)
19-21, rue Boyer, 75020 Paris
METRO: Gambetta
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