Exhibitions / Installations

Skulpturen (u.a. mit 1 u. 3)

Räume für Neue Kunst Rolf Hengesbach, Wuppertal, DE
1994

blankets, glue
various dimensions

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As the title of the show announced, some of the sculptures, the group of Memorials*, contain 1 and 3, based, numbers as used for the listings for ingredients of food – here standing for stabilizers and preservatives. To be precise, they are composed largely of these additives. I had taken a whole pile of old woolen blankets to the gallery and then looked around in the office and the basement for objects and things I could cover them with. The blankets, having been saturated with glue and binder, were placed over the objects; after they dried, the objects underneath could be removed. The objects kept their form (thanks to 1 and 3) and suggested an object no longer present. I really liked doing an exhibition in this way.

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*Memorials are sculptures made from woolen blankets and glue. From a sculptural point of view, it is a very simple casting process. The woolen blankets, dipped in glue, are laid over objects found on site, which are removed again after they have hardened.

The resulting sculptures hide nothing – they consist only of the blanket – the „shell“ under which there is a hollow space. The works have a melancholic character because they are about a supposed memory. They resemble the ghostly covered furniture found in homes not in use. The imagination creates images of things under the blankets that only exist in the viewer’s head.