Berlin-based artist Olaf Holzapfel explores the interstices between art and craftby collaborating with local farmers and craftspeople to create sculptural workthat interweaves human settlement, technique and abstraction. The handsomefull-color exhibition catalog features both large site-specific installations consistingof hay, straw and wooden frameworks along with his smaller woven sculpturesfrom his exhibition at the Lindenau-Museum Altenburg. Using space-generatingmethods like plaiting, weaving and latticing age-old settler techniques hissculptures don t differentiate between the manufactured and the handcrafted,the functional and the aesthetic. By transforming age-old handiwork intocontemporary art, Holzapfel unsettles the division between nature and culture,tradition and modernity. A concluding essay by writer Jennifer Allen exploresthe pattern-making and abstraction in Holzapfel s work in relationship to AdolfLoos s influential 1908 essay Crime and Ornament. - from Amzon