Exhibitions, Germany, Berlin, 22 August 2010
One small truck-to-rent parked along the roadside.
This van is normally used for removing / shifting material from one area to another, from one city to another in the neighborhood.
Within the container (16 m3 4 * 2 * 2m) there’s a small exhibition. As part of a convoy the truck start a crossing of a desert or polar path on urban scale.
The sole link between the social chasm that separates the center of a city from its suburbs is the road network. A transit space necessary to move from a point to another. Is that a good place for an artwork? What does it mean to be open? And to go public? Do people pay attention to chance encounters, or they better walk straight to their achievements?
The project aims at providing a chance for a cultural break. An accident which is useful for the success of a journey (of the imagination). As well as taking possession of a suspended space between inside and outside, which is both nomadic and sedentary, each artist uses his/her work as an object with some value, by being transported and held with them, its utility is renewed and its range increases.
The caravan enhances individual potential and turn unimaginable distances into a reachable one. As for the viewer, the container looks mainly as a temporary roof than as a permanent place for the artwork. The parked truck offers a second version of the usual spaces for artworks, spaces where apparently the work needs to be hosted. Rather than “asking for a space”, the work is temporarily parked on the public ground. Under its own shelter where to welcome its audience.
Shortly: no epic journey, but with the risk to exit home.
This van is normally used for removing / shifting material from one area to another, from one city to another in the neighborhood.
Within the container (16 m3 4 * 2 * 2m) there’s a small exhibition. As part of a convoy the truck start a crossing of a desert or polar path on urban scale.
The sole link between the social chasm that separates the center of a city from its suburbs is the road network. A transit space necessary to move from a point to another. Is that a good place for an artwork? What does it mean to be open? And to go public? Do people pay attention to chance encounters, or they better walk straight to their achievements?
The project aims at providing a chance for a cultural break. An accident which is useful for the success of a journey (of the imagination). As well as taking possession of a suspended space between inside and outside, which is both nomadic and sedentary, each artist uses his/her work as an object with some value, by being transported and held with them, its utility is renewed and its range increases.
The caravan enhances individual potential and turn unimaginable distances into a reachable one. As for the viewer, the container looks mainly as a temporary roof than as a permanent place for the artwork. The parked truck offers a second version of the usual spaces for artworks, spaces where apparently the work needs to be hosted. Rather than “asking for a space”, the work is temporarily parked on the public ground. Under its own shelter where to welcome its audience.
Shortly: no epic journey, but with the risk to exit home.
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