Buenos Aires. For the 'Atrapasuenos series', the artist photographed telephone lines and electric cables in one of the slums. The work entitled 'Memento mori' talks about th principle of die and become.
The fragments of our happiness: this could have also been the title of our
exhibition Buenos Aires. At Kuckei + Kuckei, the Argentinian artist Miguel
Rothschild, who lives in Berlin, is charting his home town anew. In so
doing, he is challenging – with every step – conventional demarcation
lines and, not least, those between reality and fiction.
For his Atrapasueños series (English: Dream Catcher), the artist
photographed telephone lines and electric cables in one of the slums.
Their course is reproduced precisely on smashed shatterproof glass. Two
centimetres separate the glass and the photo from one another: in this
empty interstice, any questions that arise are allowed to remain open.
It is as if Klotho, Lachesis and Atropos were spinning their threads above
the city on the Río de la Plata and deciding their fate anew with every
day that passes, Rothschild presents a photo – Parzen über Buenos Aires,
which explodes the frame and metamorphoses into an installation – by means
of cords that replace extension cables and reach to the end of the
exhibition wall.
The work entitled Memento mori. Work in progress is subject in a very
special way to the principle of die and become. The photograph shows a
harp, a shabby-looking shop sign overrun by rust; it bears the inscription
Creaciones and dates from 1963, the year the artist was born. As soon as a
visitor approaches the work, two extremely powerful spotlights are
activated by motion sensors. In the course of time, this light will change
the artwork, which has, from the very start, devoted itself to
disappearing. It becomes paler, whiter, more translucent and consequently
clear to every one of us that it is full of life.
Opening reception / Saturday 18th October, 19 – 21h
Kuckei + Kuckei
Linienstrasse 158-Berlin Germania
Hours:
Tuesday - Friday 11-18 h
Saturday 11 - 17 h