Esther Schipper Gallery announces Karin Sander's third solo exhibition “Kunst” with the gallery.The exhibition has a 21-year-old history to be looked up to, featuring a piece of work that shows both the artistic process as well as the resultant piece of work. In the year 1996, Karin Sander materialized art piece “Stoffraum Art Basel” (Canvas Room Art Basel) for 27th Art Basel, which was demonstrated in the then newly introduced section of “Statements.” The canvas room was a tiny booth, which had various sections in DIN and square formats, were cut out from canvas wall coverings to showcase at Basel Art Fair. The pieces were placed up the now blank section of the wall in clip frames. As per calculations, the frames were 434 in numbers and were placed on top; they had a distance of 0.5 cm between them. An approach like such renders the wall as both a piece of work and the base of it, transforming the clipped sections into pictures as well as consumer products, which would be sold out by the end of the art fair. These white tableaus were signed and numbered on its back and were for sale to be taken away immediately. And they did, leaving behind blank spaces, as an indication of the art pieces that the walls carried, exposed.By the end of Basel Art Fair the very booth was preserved with its walls in the same blank state, and was documented and stored in its entirety. The wall is being brought to the foreground exactly 21 years later, through the exhibition is titled as “Kunst.” The booth exhibited years ago called “Statements” will now be on view as a walk-in sculpture in its original 1996 form. Reframing the work in its contemporary context, Harald Welzer shares, “Yet it is not an art fair booth, but in a strange way a quotation placed in a different yet nearly identical context. Different because so much time has passed and the context of art production and the art market has changed; and identical, because it is still booth and still commentary and nonetheless still art."The exhibition will be on view through October 21, 2017 at Esther Schipper Gallery, Potsdamer Straße 81e, 10785 Berlin, Germany.For details, visit: www.estherschipper.com/exhibitions/477/Click on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the artworks.
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