Du Moulin Pop-up "HAMMER"
Wednesday, Sep 10, 20145:39 PM — Friday, Oct 17, 201411:59 PMEDT
| Lempertz - Berlin: Poststraße 22, 10178 Berlin, Germany
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Opening: September 10 at 7 pm Exhibition Hours: daily from 10 am - 3 pm Opening times during abc and Berlin Art Week: daily from 10 am - 7 pm Isabelle Du Moulin presents three important contemporary voices who reposition our urban spaces. Following on from Du Moulin's first Pop-up in Bikini in Berlin as part of the Gallery Weekend in 2014, this second Du Moulin Pop-up will feature works which challenge city life by placing practised experiences within a renewed context. The works on show use architecture and artistic interventions as the possibility for rethinking the conventions of public spaces as a platform for cultural life. The boundaries and barriers of public spaces are presented with minimally invasive techniques, but with powerful effect. The exhibition 'HAMMER - artistic strategies, architectural interventions and spatial politics in our cities' will be at Du Moulin Pop-up @ Lempertz Berlin. For Wermke/Leinkauf from Berlin, this exhibition in Du Moulin Pop-up is the first public contact their work has had since the exchange of the American flags on the New York Brooklyn Bridge. Whilst the artist duo grants us a bird's eye view of a city in the Pop-up exhibition, Boris Tellegen takes a look behind the urban facades. His works reveal how chaos and city structure can be characterised solely through viewpoints. The architect Jürgen Mayer H. most visibly collides with the conventions of spatial politics: through additional functionality, his buildings break these conventions by blowing up the barriers of the space. Isabelle Du Moulin places these three positions in an exciting dialogue and intentionally united them in an environment which would also surprise the art business connoisseur - the auction house. The complete unfamiliarity of such an exhibition at such a venue would particularly shake up the conventional thinking viewer and therefore sharpen their view from all directions. Matthias Wermke and Mischa Leinkauf, born in East Berlin in 1978 and 1977 respectively, have known each other since childhood. They work predominantly in public urban spaces. Their process-orientated art happenings are planned over a long period of time in which they place common behavioural patterns in alternative contexts. 'We reveal the hidden by questioning the barriers and limits of public spaces' (Leinkauf). In Du Moulin Pop-ups 'HAMMER' the video work 'Die neonorangene Kuh' from 2005 will be shown. For this work Wermke/Leinkauf installed a transportable swing in various places in Berlin. The viewer is taken on an expedition through Berlin at night, allowing them to experience the public, hectic space from a new perspective, where one can watch the figures swaying over the underground platforms and next to the television tower. As well as this, the artist duo has created three flags by sewing safety jackets together, which will be hung on the outer facade of the Lempertz building. The Berlin architect and artist Jürgen Mayer H. works with his office J. MAYER H. producing interfaces for architecture, communication design and new technologies. Jürgen Mayer H., born in 1965 in Stuttgart, has been a practising architect since the mid-1990s. A recurring component of his architecture and objects are data protection designs. The layers of printed numbers and letters, such as used by banks to conceal confidential information on the inside of envelopes, serve as the graphic source for many of his constructions and design objects. In the Du Moulin Pop-up J. MAYER H. will be exhibiting his model of the Metropol Parasol in Seville. Completed in 2011, it is the largest wooden construction in the world, made up of interlocking mushroom-shaped platforms, providing shade and a meeting place in the middle of the city. Two photographs printed on lorry tarpaulins will also be on display, one showing how the Metropol Parasol is integrated in the old town of Seville. The other shows the Georgian border checkpoint at Sarpi, designed by J. MAYER H. and completed in 2011. Alongside the customs facilities, the flowing organic tower with viewing terraces offers a cafeteria, staff rooms and a conference room. 'This isn't a place that separates, but rather brings both lands together' (J. MAYER H.) The Dutch artist Boris Tellegen was born in Amsterdam in 1965 and is also known by the name he gave himself at the age of 14, 'Delta'. Since the mid-1980s he has been considered the most well-known pioneer of the European graffiti movement and has influenced artists worldwide with his three-dimensional writing. Tellegen studied industry design and today cleverly experiments with a variety of materials such as wood, paper, metal and card for his collages, sculptures, installations and pictures. 'The recurrent themes in my work are walls and the traversing of the resulting barriers. They are the framework of my artistic development' (Tellegen). In the current Du Moulin Pop-up 'HAMMER', Boris Tellegen will be showing five wall pieces from 2012-14.
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