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Joep van Lieshout<br />
Wellness Skull<br />
Dutch artist Joep van Lieshout’s works explore the interface of art, architecture, design and hedonism. He<br />
designs entire cities, including their functions, and develops objects and installations. His work deals with<br />
housing, catering, waste management, transportation and procreation. In the context of East of Eden. A<br />
Garden Show, Zentrum Paul Klee presents his oversize skull – 4.5 m tall and 6 m in diameter – that contains<br />
a wellness centre. In the neck of the skull is a small bath. The head of the Skull contains a sauna. When it is<br />
working, hot steam pours out of its eye sockets. The Wellness Skull stands for pleasure and health, vanity and<br />
decadence. The piece refers to dying and decadence; it symbolises death, belief in the hereafter, and the end of<br />
life.<br />
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