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13/2/2008

Michael Beutler

Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm

Bonniers Konsthall presents the hitherto most extensive solo exhibition with the German artist Michael Beutler. Michael Beutler is this spring’s guest artist at Bonniers Konsthall and has been invited to work on site in the studio. The 31-year-old Berlin artist has transformed the gallery’s main space into his studio, where he has created new works that take the architecture of the building as their starting point. Using improvisation and detailed planning in equal measures, he has, in collaboration with students of The Royal University College of Fine Arts, created a forest of pillars, made out of cardboard and wire, covered with paper.

In conjunction with the new works, Bonniers Konsthall presents a selection of Beutler’s earlier pieces; hand-built machines that are both art makers and artworks in themselves. They are ingenious machines, handmade implements with very specific purposes: one corrugates paper; another stretches plastic into large volumes; a third uses glue and cardboard to form large rings that are then stacked on top of one another. In the Konsthall’s entrance hall a machine puts household aluminium through a mangle to produce long, winding pathways that cover the floor, and which are subsequently ripped to shreds by the visitors’ feet during the course of the exhibition. For each machine the artist has made a set of operating manuals that can be seen on the walls of the space. Here we find humorous, almost affectionate, instructions on how the artwork is to be used.

Every few weeks one of the machines will be turned on, creating a new work that will then be added to the exhibition. Returning visitors can see how the space is transformed through gradually being filled with the output from the machines.

Bonniers Konsthall
Torsgatan 19 - Stockholm

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