An Appreciation of the Work of Head Clausnitzer

—from the Museum of New Art, Detroit

In September 2001, Head Clausnitzer created a large wall installation for the Museum of New Art in Detroit. This is what the museum curators had to say about the work of Head Clausnitzer:

"…(Clausnitzer) is an artist who captures and expresses the excitement and trepidation of the new century."

"His work speaks of familiar things in a familiar yet edgy language. It is art distilled down to an accessible and everyday iconography, yet in new and surprising combinations. Clausnitzer's eye may wander afield, but he is never lost in his world of vividly colored juxtapositions and references to the figurative and to the abstract, to pop culture and to high fashion, to irony and to the matter-of-fact."

"His installation for the Museum of New Art is highly techno…while at the same moment evocative and disarmingly beautiful."

—From the letter essay on Head Clausnitzer's work written by Jef Bourgeau and Jan Van der Marck of the Museum of New Art in Detroit, U.S.A. September 2001

Jef Bourgeau is the director and co-founder of the Museum of New Art in Detroit, U.S.A. Bourgeau has curated shows for the Detroit Institute of Art and Boston's Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) among other venues in the U.S. In September 2001 he mounted a large multi-media show at the Museum of New Art titled "Aperto U.S.A." in which Head Clausnitzer participated creating a large wall installation on site. He "performed" the installation for museum visitors during the opening.

Jan van der Marck is the director of exhibitions and co-founder of the Museum of New Art in Detroit, U.S.A. Van der Marck also founded the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, U.S.A. He is currently curating a show of the work of Lucio Pozzi for the Museum of New Art set for November 2001.