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CHRISTIAN SCHÖNWÄLDER
 

OLD AND DIFFERENT DESIGNED BOA...

Old and different designed boards of Sprelacart, insulators, used tarpaulins, waterproof and resistant materials constitute Christian Schönwälders vocabulary out of which he scoops to pursue the as necessary regarded strategy of building and doing handicrafts.
It seems like the padded cupboards, security cabins or shrink-wrapped mattresses out of foam material want to be suggestive of a defence against unknown destructive influences from outside. Our time, full of visible and invisible threats, increases a newly arising need to build a cave, still well known from childhood times. This need finds its counterpart here, which understands itself as a recommendation.
Some of Christian Schönwälders work takes up today’s longing for safety and intensifies it to the absurd, while others redefine space an material.