In her current exhibition WORK AND PROGRESS Caroline Hake shows various kinds of architecture and hereby one of the predestinated fields of social and political formal vocabulary to express valid societal guiding principles. This wide historical field is concretized through exploring two different scenarios: the architectural development of suburban Paris (NONSTOP, 2013) and an evacuated school building from the 1970‘s about to be broken down. Despite the temporal divide of more than 30 years between the architectural concepts, the aspiration stays the same: to create an architectural environment, serving people today and tomorrow. WORK AND PROGRESS hereby also adresses an ubiquitous social and cultural demand: to realize ideas and utopias through work and selective design.
The series „PLANEN“ (2014) focuses on the time between exhibitions. The building up and taking down of artwork are part of the same process of conception, opening, presentation and ending of a show. The art pieces are concealed, tarps protect the objects from dust and sight. The folding and creasing of the wrapping material and the recflections of light create a random set, reminiscent of photograms, contructivist painting or an installation made of ordinary materials. In art there is no periphery. History, discourse and context of contemporary art perception allow for almost everything to be regarded art. Artistic selfreference and social reality can not be clearly distinguished. Every Step is a statement and images create new images. In this sende work and progress are synonymous.
Maik Schlüter
60-piece series, digital print
30 x 21 cm
Edition: 5 + 1 a.p.
60-piece series, digital print
30 x 21 cm
Edition: 5 + 1 a.p.
60-piece series, digital print
30 x 21 cm
Edition: 5 + 1 a.p.
60 x 40 cm
Edition: 3 + 1 a.p.
Fine-Art Print, 60 x 40 cm
Edition: 3 + 1 a.p.
Fine-Art Print
60 x 40 cm
Edition: 3 + 1 a.p.
Fine Art Print, 60 x 40 cm
Edition: 3 + 1 a.p.