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third initiative of John Doe features an installation by Beifuss, Kassing,
Huber, Teitz, Walhäuser, Breuer, Pompa, Kraiss and Taylor. All of them
are students of Georg Herold's class at Duesseldorf art academy and it's
their first big installation outside the academy's spaces. The
installation consists of very individual works and special contributions
which all are generated separately and without any relation to the others
but surprisingly the are corelating very well to each other. Most of the
artists are using trashy and recycled materials in order to create a world
of transitory experience which contrasts static concepts of human society.
They hereby reflect today's notion of reality but they refuse to commit
their artistic approach to the trendy worlds of virtual reality and the
sleek design of the cyberspace. In contrary they accept material stuff and
physical experience as of the same value for contemporary living as the
virtues of the cyberspace. Their installation evokes apocalyptic vsions of
the end of days but at the same time the attraction of the works involved
are so strong that one impossibly can refuse to get into this world full
of trash and shit, of sound and sight. It's irritation and fascination at
the same time, fun and horror belong together and the gamble of revolving
traditional meaning becomes a valid vision of contemporary society. |
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