Dennis Oppenheim /USA/
Born in Electric City, Washington (United States) in 1938, Dennis Oppenheim is one of the most internationally recognized artists of his generation. He became worldwide know in the sixties, as a member of the small group of Earth Art’s artists. Highly appreciate by his conceptual and object-like artworks, his architectonical deconstructions are famous, as well as his actions, lectures, photographs, drawings and paintings. In his sculptures, the artist combines architecture and sculpture, turning the everyday object (one of the main elements of his critical interpretation of our Contemporary world), into something familiar but always surprising.
Presented for the first time in Europe, his “Aerial Water Closets” are emblematic of the irony of the artist, always sensitive with the use and abuse of nature by mankind. As his sculptures shows, nature that can become an “industrial” construction such as these “trees” that have grown in the old center of one the most beautiful cities of Europe, Prague. Trees, as it is seen, whose leaves and flowers are such strange elements as water closets, toilets and lavatories, a humoristic claim for respect towards our environment.