Mandla Reuter
dal 16/1/2013 al 9/3/2013
Segnalato da
16/1/2013
Mandla Reuter
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel
In his architectonic installations, Reuter often explores the function of rooms, which he subtly or remarkably transforms and restructures, and whose utility and perimeters are consequently altered. He makes explicit the potential in controlling a space.
Kunsthalle Basel is delighted to present the first solo exhibition of German artist Mandla Reuter in Switzerland.
In his enigmatic works and architectonic installations, Reuter often explores the function of rooms, which he subtly or remarkably transforms and restructures, and whose utility and perimeters are consequently altered. As such, the artist makes explicit the visual, physical, and psychological potential in controlling a space.
To that end, Reuter might block doors or impede staircases and entire galleries and museum spaces in order to grant them an intimacy—alternately aggressive and pathos-laden—otherwise missing, turning them into private rooms in the process.
In this manner he sensitizes the visitor towards the public, sometimes sterile institutional space and highlights the architectural as well as the aesthetic and social conditions for the production of art. Confronted with Reuter’s alterations, the spectator is forced to find new ways through the exhibition space and experience its galleries in altogether different ways. Through simple, exacting gestures, the artist renders visible the power dynamics that shape each architectural environment, and points out the structures (institutional, personal) that form and inform our ever-artificial surroundings.
Mandla Reuter was born 1976 in Nqutu, South Africa, He lives and works in Basel, CH and Berlin, DE.
Opening: Thursday, January 17th, 7 pm
Kunsthalle Basel
Steinenberg 7, Basel
Opening hours: Tue/Wed/Fri 11am–6pm · Thu 11am–8.30pm · Sat/Sun 11am–5pm
Admission: CHF 10.-/6.- incl. S AM Swiss Architecture Museum