Haim Steinbach's Object Epiphany at Museion Bolzano

Haim Steinbach's exhibition at Museion Bolzano, co-produced with Museum Kurhaus Kleve, focuses on works from the last thirty years alongside recent pieces like Display#91‒ The difference between zoom and zooooooooooooo, which emerged from texts collected by the artist from various places and transferred onto paper and wall. Steinbach's early language was pictorial and minimalist, balancing monochrome and chromatic variation in irregular geometric figures. In Bolzano, the metamorphosis of his practice is evident as he abandoned painting for objects. The formal arrangement of objects led him to consider color itself as an object, exemplified by the Starbucks Roast brown wall painting and pantonecoolgray10 (2016). The epiphany of the object transforms Museion itself into an object; everything becomes a device, and the space becomes a place of sharing and crossing. Steinbach's objectification of reality is rooted in mystery, where the banality of the object changes status, becomes an enigma, and generates surprise in the viewer.