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MOVABLES. 1000 PIECES OF FURNITURE ON 80 SQUAREMETERS
July 4 - November 10, 2008
Apart from the permanent
collection the Werkbundarchiv – Museum der Dinge shows a new
installation focusing on furniture as a museum object beyond the usual
attribution to a designer or a stylistic context. This new presentation
questions the relationship between movables and space.
The main
part of the exhibition is Carolina Kecsmemethy’s installation
"Can-Can", which creates an unusual „thing-landscape“ consisting of her
large collection of miniature furniture pieces. Kecsmemethy puts this
arrangement in relation to drawing and to a video work about Jacques
Offenbach’s "Can-Can" music.
Kecsmemethy’s intention to create an
image of cultural estrangement and heterogenous composition is
confronted with the museum’s presentation and intensified by it. A
basic aspect of a museum’s tasks is shown by the serial arrangement of
a large number of second-hand miniature furniture from different
periods and different cultural origins. A museum works with objects
that are torn from their original context and therefore appear as
stranded goods of history.
The size of this commenting exhibition
creates a new view on the storage presentation of the WMD, focusing on
its arrangement. The artistic, museum-reflecting and playful-theatrical
adoptions refer to each other. A dialogue based on the tension between
big and small, reality and model, area and space begins.
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