Pictures of the exhibition ‘Objekte als Freunde’ (‘Objects as friends’) by Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys at the Kestnergesellschaft in Hannover, on view until August 16, 2011.
The exhibition consisted of 168 photographs of installations of the most random objects from 1 euro-shops or thrift stores, all of the same size and very detailed.
From different corners of the room came a generic, dull, computerized voice describing different colours and their associations and meaning. This sound belonged to the animation shown below.
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Untitled (Tate), by Fischli & Weiss was commissioned to form part of the opening displays of Tate Modern when it opened in 2000. Its collection of everyday objects, resembling a workshop, were each individually handmade and in part designed to mimic the working environment of the Tate Modern gallery prior to it’s opening.
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‘Nothing to infinity’ (2008) by Roula Partheniou.
Canvases painted to resemble books (from the Handmade Readymade project).
Robotlab, ‘The Bible scribe’ (2007)
The installation ‘bios [bible]’ consists of an industrial robot, that writes down the bible on rolls of paper. The machine draws the calligraphic lines with high precision. Like a monk in the scriptorium it recreates the text step by step.
Starting with the old testament and the books of Moses, ‘bios [bible]’ produces the whole book within seven months continuously. All 66 books of the bible are written on rolls and then retained and presented in the library of the installation.
(Robotlab is Matthias Gommel, Martina Haitz and Jan Zappe)
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‘745’ (2008) by Robin Waart.
All the exclamation marks (745) removed from a single copy of “Donald Duck”‘s weekly magazine.
‘Tien boeken (Ik hou van je)’ (2006) by Robin Waart.
A collection of ten books whose “publisher’s logo’s” form the Dutch ten letter sentence “Ik hou van je” – I love you.
(also see Nina Katchadourian)
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‘Reference Library’ (2011). Trophies for books Lance Wakeling read during 2010.
‘Urban Light’ (2008) by Chris Burden.
Tauba Auerbach
‘Alphabetized Bible’ (2006) by Tauba Auerbach.