#BMWArtJourney artist #MaxHooperSchneider | On view at ucla’s #HammerMuseum in first ever solo museum show!⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Via hammer_museum: ‘Artists are often likened to inventors or scientists, and in the case of max_hooper_schneider the comparison is more than metaphoric. The artist's background in #landscapearchitecture and #marinebiology strongly informs his artwork. Research and scientific investigation are key to his process. He explores the relationships between #philosophy and #nature, the personal and the political, destruction and construction, and what he calls nonhuman and human agents. Blending his diverse areas of expertise, his idiosyncratic sculptures, installations, and drawings challenge conventional systems of classification, suggesting a worldview that strives to dislocate humans from their assumed position of centrality and superiority as knowers and actors in the world. Schneider will create a new immersive installation for his Hammer Projects exhibition, his first solo m...