Absence 2 2020
Absence 2 (WV C 026) 2020
Künstlerforum Bonn, exhibition "Raum ist Partitur" 2020 | Floor installation made of erosion loess chunks |view before the vernissage | Total length of the series série: 520 cm | Fig.2 et 3: Traces after the opening performance | Fig.4: opening performance at 26th sept. 2020
Künstlerforum Bonn, exhibition "Raum ist Partitur" 2020 | Floor installation made of erosion loess chunks |view before the vernissage | Total length of the series série: 520 cm | Fig.2 et 3: Traces after the opening performance | Fig.4: opening performance at 26th sept. 2020
Invited to the group exhibition "Raum ist Partitur" at the Bonn Künstlerforum, I develop a continuation of the concept Absence 1 realized 5 years earlier (see S.....). The whole exhibition is in the context of the Beethoven anniversary year 2020. In Abscence 2 I use again 9 loess lumps, postglacial loess-loam compactions from the native Tuniberg. These clay-sand fragments baked together represent earth-historically-geologically as well as in their immediate presence a tangible dimension of time, transformation and decay (...in small units).
At the Künstlerforum in Bonn, a time-structure transformation is heightened into an intensified, almost pathetic action with a staged vernissage performance. The naturally extremely slow erosion process is accelerated enormously:
Three of the nine chunks laid out are hurled by a shot-putter from the center of the room into the corner of the room. They remain there as a mixture of sand and dust in the corner of the room for the duration of the exhibition. The three impact points are visible on the walls, similar to a score. So are the three empty spaces of the removed, absent chunks from the linear sequence of nine rocks (see fig.2).
On the wall behind, weightless, similar to a classical notation, float nine close-up images of Saturn's moons - they are the most recent image icons of science, of the 10s of the 21st century. The moons, some of them with upstream or downstream structures of Saturn's ring, appear in a black-and-white-negative reversal graphically-idealized and supratemporally perfect in form, although the processes of change in form are permanently at work on them on large time scales (Satellites #01+02:/image/conceptual-images/satellites-01--02---2020). These cosmic forces become visible at a closer look for example in the crater structures of the scarred moon surfaces and beyond that not least in the nuanced gas cloud matter dust of the Saturn ring, a relict of former bound cosmic bodies. (jk 2020)