In its space for changing exhibitions, Berlinische Galerie presents a wide range of interdisciplinary artistic positions. Rapport pays the walls and the floors of the space with a large data protection pattern. An overview of architectural projects along with five experimental 3D prints complement the individual show.
Project:
Rapport
Year:
2008 – 2012
Exhibition venue:
Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany
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The exhibition “RAPPORT. Experimental Spatial Structures” offers new insights into the interdisciplinary approach of the internationally acclaimed architectural office J. MAYER H. For the first time, the team has developed a walk-in installation for the museum’s 10-metre high entrance area. Walls and floor are clad in carpeting, on which data security patterns are printed in black and grey. The work’s space-consuming concept negates the strict geometry of the entrance hall. The considerably enlarged, repeating patterns produce a flickering impression and transform the white cube into a playful scenario of interpermeating forms and structures. Supplementary three-dimensional models translate the two-dimensional patterns into concrete forms. The title “Rapport” is intended to be ambiguous. As a specialist German-language term from textile manufacturing, it refers to the serial pattern of the installation. On the other hand, in the military field the term “Rapport” means a “dispatch”, while in psychology it describes a human relationship in which those involved convey something to the others. In this sense it also refers to the starting material of the installation: data security patterns, which are used, for example, on the inside of envelopes. In this case, they stand for confidential communication between two parties.
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Courtesy: Magnus Müller
The exhibition was realized by the support of Vorwerk, Berliner Stadtreinigung
Partner in charge:
Jürgen Mayer H.
Team:
Wilko Hoffmann
Jesko M. Johnsson-Zahn
Photographers:
Jesko Malkolm Johnsson-Zahn
Ludger Paffrath