Kein schlechter Umgang

Bild 1 Kind vor Fotografie Klara Lidén (* 1979, SE), Self Portrait with the Keys to the City (2005). Bild 2 Installationsansicht der Ausstellung in den KW 2026. Klara Lidén praktiziert Kindererziehung für Erwachsene als kognitive Flexibilität. Umgehe nicht auf erlernten Wegen die Strukturen, sondern geh mit ihnen nach Deinen Bedürfnissen und Interessen um. Oder geh. Geh weiter. Fall hin. Steh auf. Kletter hoch. Bau es ab. Nimm es mit. Mal es an. Mach mit. Mach. "Warum macht Klara das?" "Weil es sie interessiert." "Und weil sie es kann!" "Genau."

Autobahn

Wegweiser

"Haus Rucker" were the cool cats amongst the architects of the seventies. I mean, which architect invented a flying-middle-finger-rocket, seriously? Or a huge (14 meters high) middle-finger rising out of a landscape, called "Wegweiser"? And was respected for their consciousness-expanding theories about landscape and human beeings in the same time? To me, it seems, that only Austrians are able to combine this very special humour with serious artworks. Best-known for their Capsules, who hang out of the windows of existing houses to create "Enclaves" in the city or their "Soziale Plastiken", where they wrapped human-beeings, atmospheres or even a piece of a river in, yes, plastic, to sharpen the consciousness for the alienation and pollution of the environment, they definitly had some hard facts to tell. They deconstructed the borders of nature and building and fullfilled the forecast of their chosen name: "Haus Rucker" means to push away the old buildings to generate space for something new.
Laurids Ortner, Günter Zamp Kelp und Klaus Pinter were the founders 1967 in Vienna.
Go see a nicely curated exhibition by Zamp himself in lovely "Haus am Waldsee" until the 22nd of february.

Charlotte Posenenske

"The Square Tube Series D", 1967, Charlotte Posenenske (1930 - 1985), Tate Modern, London

"The things I make / are variable / as simple as possible / reproducible. They are Components of space, since they are like / building elements, / they can always be rearranged into new combinations or positions / thus, they alter the space. / I leave this alteration to the consumer who thereby again and anew participates in the creation."

Charlotte Posenenske published this Text in Art International, 1968, befor she gave up her art practice to study sociology.

Beautiful Absence

Sao Paulo is wild, growing, moving, coulourful, dangerous, flourishing, broken, noisy, huge, chaotic. The colours are overwhelming. The earth, breaking out on building sites, ranges from bright orange to deep red, green is growing everywhere out of the narrowest gap, bringing life to flowers every size and shape and grey is the concrete, grey is the dust, glowing in the burning yellow of the sun. The houses and streets are like nature, spreading all over in every dimension, fighting each other for light.
Allthough all the impressions were so dense, they didn`t overwhelme me.
I wandered through the city, enjoying and seeing so many people, architecture and details in such relaxation, that I started asking myself why this special awareness I gain in foreign places was so much stronger as usual.
As I talked to a local artist, he asked me about my opinion about the total absence of advertisement in public. Suddenly I knew, where my free mind, my ability to concentrate on faces and to be aware of structures and life, came from.
Nothing washed my brain with short texts and screaming colours, symbols and pictures all the time. Advertisement must have been a battlefield in Sao Paulo, since there are so many building sites and shopping streets which all were covered by products, available in this booming country.
In 2006 the mayor decided to fight the pollution of the city.
He defined the visual pollution as one of the most bothering ones and decided to ban it, 70 percent of Sao Paulos inhabitants behind him.
As the ads disappeared, the people started to realize how grey and broken the facades were. How parts of the city were lacking proper care. There had to be street lights installed, buildings restored and signs made. But after all, they started to see the city and care for it again. The reference system sorrounding everyone wasn´t well produced fiction anymore.
Naive, who thinks that doesn´t change thinking.
This step seemed to be easy to take. The next steps, fighting the pollution of air, the housing shortage, the poverty and the crime will be much higher for the gouvernment.
"I would like to adopt this idea for the whole wide world", was my answer to the artist.
He, by the way, made a wonderful piece of art out of this happening.
As a collage he replaced all the empty billboards and walls of the city with his paintings.

Sao Paulo

flying robots

by Gramazio & Kohler and Raffaello D’Andrea

ABSALON

Bitte die Ausstellung ABSALON in den Kunstwerken besuchen. (bis zum 20. Februar)

Mein liebster neuer Gedankenkreislauf: Inwiefern hat Absalon mit seinen Wohnzellen 1. eine Vorhölle, 2. einen Schutzraum oder 3. einen radikalen Gesellschaftsentwurf gebaut ?

Für 1. spricht: Das im Treppenhaus ausgestellte Schreivideo, die Irrenanstaltassoziation, die Zelle, in der der Mensch verwahrt wird, auf dass er seine Umwelt nicht belästige. Das Weiß betäubt, ist die Pille.

Für 2. gilt: Das Weiß ist Leinwand, bespielbar mit Gedanken, Visionen von Lebensformen.
Rührend werden in den Häuschen alle menschlichen Bedürfnisse berücksichtigt, es gibt Bettchen, Fensterchen, Kläppchen. Ein architektonischer Mutterbauch, ein Puppenhaus für Großstädter. Mehr ist nicht nötig.

3.: "Es geht bei Absalon auch darum, das Private und das Öffentliche neu zu sortieren." Privates wird kompakt, das bedeutet mehr Raum für Öffentlichkeit, also öffentlichere Menschen. Allerdings zwangsläufig. Wobei wir wieder bei Interpretation Nummer 1 wären. Wollen wir das?

Es handelt sich um eine gebaute Deklination von Wohnen und der mindesten menschlichen/körperlichen Interaktion mit Umwelt.
Übrigens könnte man die Ausstellung auch alleine aufgrund ihrer skulpturalen und ästhetischen Qualitäten besuchen. Und danach inspiriert schicke Möbelchen bauen. Regale oder so. Und dann ein Buch darüber schreiben.