ASSAB ONE, Milan & magnus muller, Berlin
Works, installations and videos by
Sabine Gross, Christoph Draeger, Ellen Harvey, Harald Hermann, Jeroen Jacobs, Markus Keibel, Chris Larson, Lucas Lenglet, Jürgen Mayer H., Piotr Nathan, Warren Neidich, Giada Pucci, Jenny Rosemeyer, Susanne Weirich
DeABC presents STASIclub by Luca Pancrazzi, Steve Piccolo, Gak Sato
Space Control presented works of art involving our perception of space. What exactly happens when we observe a work of art? In which extent are we influenced by space and in which degree are we able to control it? What do we perceive in a space, and how do we process our perceptions?
A number of installation realized by artists represented by magnus muller unify the exhibition in the industrial exhibition space of ASSAB ONE in Milan. Interacting one with another, they present different possibilities of space perception. Some works, such as the black and white photo collages by Jenny Rosemeyer and the „dreamworld paintings“ by Harald Hermann, play with the illusion of three-dimensionality, respectively unreal space.
The concrete sculptures by Jeroen Jacobs, require the visitor’s physical action - the surrounding of the object - in order to perceive the spatial dimension of the work.
In Susanne Weirich's video "Silent Playground" the actress Inga Bush is playing an avatar that moves in the virtual space of a play station game, in which the visitor plays a decisive role, too. Warren Neidich’s photograph from the series „Earthling“ broach the issue of private and public space, and Sabine Gross, with her video „The scream“, presents the restrictive space of human fear, the contrary of liberty, which is in turn illustrated in the glass works by Markus Keibel. Some works, finally, are concerned with the political controlled public space, for instance Christoph Draeger’s cartoon „Martinique crash“, which ironically simulates Silvio Berlusconi’s death through a crash of an airplane.
Hence, Space Control presented works of art, which either produced space or which limitate space. The margin reaches from virtual three-dimensional space (Sabine Gross, Jenny Rosemeyer, Ellen Harvey, Harald Hermann), over imaginary space (Susanne Weirich, Markus Keibel, Piotr Nathan, Sabine Gross, Warren Neidich, Chris Larson), to concrete physical space (Jeroen Jacobs, Lucas Lenglet, Jürgen Mayer H.).
In Space Control the viewer was invited to discover and to enlarge his perception of space through both contemplation and action.