(Vienna 1947–2012)
Untitled, 1987, signed Brandl+West, papier-mâché, plaster, wood shavings, wood, metal, painted by Herbert Brandl, 67 x 62 x 97 cm

This work can be either wall hung or freestanding.

…Bei Eugen Lendl in Graz stellt West unter dem Titel »Geteilter Geschmack« erstmals zusammen mit Herbert Brandl geschaffene Arbeiten aus (31. Juni-3.August). Dafür entsteht auch ein gemeinsames Plakat beim Grazer Siebdrucker Ralph Schilcher. Die Serie gemeinsamer Ausstellungen mit Brandl wird bei Giorgio Persano in Turin (Eröffnung: 15. März 1988) und Peter Pakesch in Wien (»Die Ernte des Tantalos«, 16. September-15.Oktober 1988) sowie in der Galerie Grässlin-Ehrhardt in Frankfurt am Main (1.-30. September 1989) fortgesetzt…
Eva Badura-Triska/ Franz West-Chronologie und Kontext seiner künstlerischen Entwicklung/aus Franz West Proforma, Oktagon, 1996

... At Eugen Lendl Gallery in Graz, West for the first time exhibited works created together with Herbert Brandl, under the title »Geteilter Geschmack« (31 June–3 August). For this occasion, the Graz screen printer Ralph Schilcher created a poster. The series of joint exhibitions with Brandl continued at the art galleries Giorgio Persano in Turin (opening: 15 March 1988) and Peter Pakesch in Vienna (»Die Ernte des Tantalos«), 16 September–15 October 1988) as well as at the Grässlin-Ehrhardt Gallery in Frankfurt am Main (1–30 September 1989)...
Eva Badura-Triska/ Franz West-Chronologie und Kontext seiner künstlerischen Entwicklung/aus Franz West Proforma, Oktagon, 1996

Exhibited:
Herbert Brandl-Franz West, Geteilter Geschmack, Galerie Eugen Lendl, Graz 1987 (31.6-3.8.1987)

Registered:
Franz West Privatstiftung, Vienna

Provenance:
Private Collection, Vienna

Text for Herbert Brandl 1993

The content of Herbert Brandl’s colour palette makes one think that everything that is optically perceptible has some colour. But colour, as such, is also available commercially at any time. In contrast to form, which is always evoked by means of a prop. Colour indeed has volume, yet only in a packaged form – here it becomes surface. The neighbour goes shopping and below Arnulf or Albert, loudly burbling just about endlessly, passes water.
Luise to Hans-Peter: have you got a favourite colour? Hans-Peter to Josef (condescendingly): Did have – and it was a greyish pink. Pink with grey. Pink that sort of tends towards orange. I also used this colour for years, as well as luminous red, but very muted. Luise (pointedly): How do you deploy the colour in your work? Josef: In a dilemma. I try to overcome my ‘cowardice’ in the use of materials, and deploy the colour. And then the next problems arise...
From: Franz West schrieb, Texte von 1975–2010, Hans Ulrich Obrist/Ines Turian, Verlag der Buchhandlung