Intro
Inge Mahn: Snake, Swings, Caravan
Converso, Milano
10 October–16 November 2019
Content
The solo show of influential German artist Inge Mahn in the baroque church of Converso consists of two seminal historical works combined with a newly commissioned installation. The sculptures of Inge Mahn are socially-minded. Through her spatial interventions, she creates places that are both personal and reflect her relationship with the outside world. While studying at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf in 1969 she built a little house to temporarily shield herself from the daily political discussions in Joseph Beuys’ classroom.
When Inge Mahn visited the church in preparation of the show, she was immediately drawn to its grand interior, eventually creating a site-specific work entitled 'Snake' (2019). As a point of departure served a massive ventilation pipe that the artist perceived as a foreign body in space. By prolonging the tube down to the floor where it is released to meander freely through the former church Inge Mahn turns a flaw into the reincarnation of a biblical animal.
