PRESS RELEASE: QUARTER REST & TEMPORARY THOUGHTS IN QUARTER REST
Anita Tarnutzer & Adam FeldmethQUARTER REST & Temporary Thoughts in QUARTER REST
30. November 2011 – 11. Dezember 2011
Quarter Rest marks the debut exhibition of a new sculpture from Anita Tarnutzer. Rising from the geometry of a cube and conceived as an ongoing project, the sculpture will only be present for the length of its exhibition in spaces, which contain door passages that are smaller than the object is large. This exhibition requirement substantiates a paradox. Can the cube ever be displayed?
The nearly three-meter-tall sculpture made from a synthetic plaster which approximates porcelain will be shattered during the deinstallation of every exhibition. Within the distinct context of each presentation, the object is reconstituted from its fragments. This effort simultaneously embodies a
shift away, piece by piece, from the initial precision found in the rendering of the object and the minimalism invoked through its form. Gaps, cracks and breaks bare this reality. These instances of misconnection in the porcelain-like surface are made present with tint and filling, disassociating from a visual sense of seamlessness while providing an enhancement to structural integrity. The tint applied for each subsequent presentation will be a shade darker in hue from its previous appearance. In time, the cube will become a container of numerical-like shatterings reflected in the forthcoming gradient between the fragments that remain.
An archeologist assembling the shards of salvaged pottery from ruin as an attempt to grasp what culture lies behind a once-functional object. A child carefully gluing back together the shattered ceramic vase in secret, hoping no one will notice the newly-fractured appearance. In this setting, such analogies as relational bases are insubstantial: The archeologist will ultimately break what was constructed after its sole purpose, to be exhibited, has passed while the child proudly displays what
was (and is to be) shattered by freezing it in reconstituted highlight.
What must break down to enter space must break down in order to exit onward.
At the invitation of Tarnutzer, Adam Feldmeth will be thinking in Quarter Rest for the duration of the exhibition.
Tät
Schönhauser Allee 161a
10435 Berlin
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