Bruno Gironcoli is one of the most idiosyncratic artists of the twentieth century. He gained public recognition with the large-scale sculptures, in which archetypes and trivial elements meld to form futuristic conglomerates. It is less well known that alongside his work in sculpture, Gironcoli also produced an extensive body of graphic works. Right from the beginning, these often large-format pieces were not just mere sketches for sculptures. Working on paper, the Austrian artist instead took his own spatial ideas into dimensions that by far transcend any concrete work on physical materials. On paper, Gironcoli animates his own sculptural work: Gironcoli’s works on paper are literally “surfaces of considerations” (Gironcoli), in which sculptural options unfeasible in space are played out. The retrospective as well as the comprehensive catalogue Bruno Gironcoli: Shy at Work will for the first time focus on the painter and draughtsman Gironcoli.