Ausstellungsdauer Duration 12. 05. - 01. 07. 2006
JIMMY DURHAM
Ausstellungsansicht: Glass ... und Wachs!
12. Mai - 1. Juli 2006
JIMMY DURHAM
exhibition view: Glass ... und Wachs!
12. Mai - 1. Juli 2006
ANNE SCHNEIDER
Ausstellungsansicht
Exhibition view
„Glass is clear at least. Well, I mean some glass is clear. There is now the status-symbol of un-clear, smoky glass windows in limousines so that the public cannot see the important man inside.
Don’t you think the clarity of glass has probably been made for better wine over the centuries? If we had no clear glass through which to admire the color, wine might have stayed simply dark and serviceable.
So hard, yet so breakable! And when broken, so dangerously sharp! So un-reparable!
It is only a little more than ten years ago that scientists finally made glass a category of matter unto itself. Before there were three states of matter, liquid, solid and gas. More and more clearly scientists came to understand, that glass is most like a liquid; it does not have the molecular structure of a solid. In fact, it is an extremely slow liquid. It is so slow, that the universe can come to an end before the smallest motion of this liquid can be detected, and therefore it cannot be called a liquid.
It is really no longer very good for architecture, because when a bomb explodes the death by flying glass is horrendous. We’ll probably soon have more defensive kind of architecture.“
(Jimmie Durham, 2006)
„Glass is clear at least. Well, I mean some glass is clear. There is now the status-symbol of un-clear, smoky glass windows in limousines so that the public cannot see the important man inside.
Don’t you think the clarity of glass has probably been made for better wine over the centuries? If we had no clear glass through which to admire the color, wine might have stayed simply dark and serviceable.
So hard, yet so breakable! And when broken, so dangerously sharp! So un-reparable!
It is only a little more than ten years ago that scientists finally made glass a category of matter unto itself. Before there were three states of matter, liquid, solid and gas. More and more clearly scientists came to understand, that glass is most like a liquid; it does not have the molecular structure of a solid. In fact, it is an extremely slow liquid. It is so slow, that the universe can come to an end before the smallest motion of this liquid can be detected, and therefore it cannot be called a liquid.
It is really no longer very good for architecture, because when a bomb explodes the death by flying glass is horrendous. We’ll probably soon have more defensive kind of architecture.“
(Jimmie Durham, 2006)
Anne Schneiders Arbeiten beziehen sich auf den Körper, der von einer Verknüpfung von Wesen und Existenz spricht. Diesem Sprechen gibt sie Gestalt in Form von Fragmentierung. Es wird nicht erzählt, sondern konstruiert, in die Gegenwart. Der Verlust, der dabei entsteht, entspricht der Tatsache, dass Dinge Ereignisse sind - sie entstehen durch Annäherung. H. Ciouxs: „Ein Ding „sehen“ heißt, in Wirklichkeit immer es kommen sehen.“ So sieht Schneider selbst in ihrer bevorzugten Materialwahl, dem Wachs, nur die Idee einer Annäherung. Ein Kommen, ein Verweilen und Verabschieden zugleich.
Wie Fundsachen werden ein Tisch, eine Matratze, Weintrauben etc. in den Raum gestellt und durch ihre Umformungen bzw. Verwendung verharren sie in einem Miteinander. Sie evozieren eine Ganzheit, die wir nicht mehr greifen können, die jedoch spürbar die Atmosphäre des Raums bestimmt.
Im Sinne Lucy Lippards (Art International,1966): „Das Willkürliche wird abgelehnt zugunsten einer einzigen Form, die Bild, Gestalt, Metapher und Assoziation zusammenfasst und dem Betrachter als ganzer, unverfälschter ästhetischer Sinneseindruck gegenübertritt (...).“