Maja Degirmendzic / Simon Steinhauser
Acryl auf Banknoten
flag of turkey – 126x87cm, acryl on sewn 5 euro notes, 2009
Eröffnung: Freitag, 18. November 2011 – 19 Uhr
Ausstellung: 19.11.-27.11.2011, Mi – So 16 – 19 Uhr u.n.V.
During a 10 minutes working break we had when we made preparations for shows at the liverpool biennial, i asked maja what are the most important things in life. she said: money and where you come from, and sometimes maybe the religion you are born in. i answered: lets do something which contains all these three parts. so we decided to start with the project IDENTITIES? we arranged with the help of some
friends banknotes from Israel, the USA, Turkey, China, Russia and the EU. after a process of colouring them with acryl in the different colours of their flags we started to sew (and partly cut) them together. the flags we created became independent of their content – money, nationality and religion.
In the same time – through changing or using the own banknotes for different, opposite countries – they became a different worth – and an other identity.
Gabba Reifenstihl öffnet ihr TageSkizzenBuch, ihr Skizzen-Tagebuch. Zum ersten Mal sehen wir diese Tages- und andere Skizzen als eigenständige Arbeiten und kontinuierlich diskontinuierlichen Aufzeichnungsprozess und in der Folge als Wieder- und Neuverwertungsprozess. Weiter gezeigt werden Original-Zeichnungen, ein Skizzo-Booklet und die neuesten Arbeiten zum”Cosmic Hospital”.
