Rudolf Stingel and a career that redefined painting | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

Rudolf Stingel and a career that redefined painting | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

By New York Times |New York |Updated: June 11, 2019 12:29:02 pm

Rudolf Stingel and a career that redefined painting

Rudolf Stingel was born in 1956 in Merano, a town in south Tyrol, Italy, near the Swiss and Austrian borders. He came of age in the late 1960s and 1970s, a time of rebelliousness and irreverence, when “questioning” was “what art was supposed to be".

Rudolf Stingel at his exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler in Basel, Switzerland, on May 25, 2019. The exhibition includes pieces that visitors can feel and even alter. (Photo: Daniel Auf der Mauer/The New York Times)

For his last big show in Europe in 2013, Rudolf Stingel covered the floors and walls of the Palazzo Grassi in Venice with an Ottoman-style synthetic carpet. Now he’s taking over the Fondation Beyeler in Basel, Switzerland, with an exhibition of work from the past three decades.