Rudolf Stingel
MASSIMODECARLO | Milan/Lombardia
The most arresting of the iconic images that have intermittently appeared in Rudolf Stingel’s work is doubtless the six-armed Buddha who holds in each of his hands a creative tool: brush, scissors, tube of paint, spatula, spray gun, and blender. In his recent show Stingel chose to exhibit two cast polyurethane sculptures from this series alongside works that appeared radically different—a group of abstract works on paper. This was clearly not, however, a demonstration of a willful eclecticism. While Stingel’s Buddha is an irreverent and amusing figure, the two sculptures continued an important