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The show opens with the bright, bold and almost disarmingly comfortable Ordinary Language installation. Bottle is Hans Accola’s Untitled, made of bottle, newspaper and metal.

Formed as a result of wearable sculptures designed for miniature, informal performances – the aforementioned Adaptives – they extend the idea of the forms as pieces not of visual art to be placed on a pedestal, but finely-formed playthings. The boundaries of furniture and sculpture are utterly blurred – highlighting the wry humour that underpins West’s aesthetic. The pieces are united by a performative focus on the human body and frequently rely on the actions of the audience – or ‘recipients’ as show curator and friend of West Eva Badura-Triska terms the viewers of his work. Franz West, Lehmittel, 1994Ī stunning new show at the Hepworth Wakefield gallery in Yorkshire entitled Where is my Eight? offers a survey of his intriguing career from the 1970s until just before his death in 2012, at times underscoring the links between the corporeality and physicality of his work with the organisation’s namesake, Barbara Hepworth.

His works span furniture installation-style configurations (or ‘Combinations’) of other artists’ work with his own painting works on paper and most famously sculpture. The artist was born in 1947 in Vienna, and began creating art at around 23 years old, with no formal training. Louisana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark.