Daylight View
Glow in the Dark
DRESSCODE
- Client: Bauhaus Dessau
- Size: A1 (59,4 x 84,1 cm)
- Printing Technique: serigraphy. Printed with phosphorescent color: Glows in the dark
- Year: 2016
- About: DRESSCODE is a site-specific installation at the BAUHAUS Dessau along the Gropiusallee. Under the banner of a "Signalskulptur" (signal sculpture) it connects the historic BAUHAUS building and the famous Meisterhäuser (Master's houses).
- DRESSCODE represents a contemporary reflection on a current historic exhibition about projects at the BAUHAUS from the 20s that mostly never got realized called Big Plans. Applied modernism in Saxony-Anhalt 1919-1933.
- As a so-called Détournement, a misappropriation, in the sense of the 60s Situationist movement it turns a daily object into an art object by ignoring its original purpose. A tree protection model used to protect trees nearby construction sites is the inspiration for this sculpture. By changing only three parameters: surface (smooth instead of rough), color (yellow instead of colorless), amount (X amount instead of the amount needed) its meaning begin to shift. Instead of a "useful purpose" it turns into a visual experience playing with the viewer's expectations and trained knowledge: art or construction site, clothes or costume, fake or real?
Tree protection at construction site
Close up
Model, Stage 1
Model, Stage 1
Model, Stage 2
Production process, Day 2
Production process, Day 4
Production process, Day 5
Production process, Day 6
Setting up
Looking down Gropiusallee
Looking up Gropiusallee
Opposite side of the street
Bauhaus Backyard
DRESSCODE
- Client: Bauhaus Dessau
- Size: A1 (59,4 x 84,1 cm)
- Printing Technique: serigraphy. Printed with phosphorescent color: Glows in the dark
- Year: 2016
- About: DRESSCODE is a site-specific installation at the BAUHAUS Dessau along the Gropiusallee. Under the banner of a "Signalskulptur" (signal sculpture) it connects the historic BAUHAUS building and the famous Meisterhäuser (Master's houses).
- DRESSCODE represents a contemporary reflection on a current historic exhibition about projects at the BAUHAUS from the 20s that mostly never got realized called Big Plans. Applied modernism in Saxony-Anhalt 1919-1933.
- As a so-called Détournement, a misappropriation, in the sense of the 60s Situationist movement it turns a daily object into an art object by ignoring its original purpose. A tree protection model used to protect trees nearby construction sites is the inspiration for this sculpture. By changing only three parameters: surface (smooth instead of rough), color (yellow instead of colorless), amount (X amount instead of the amount needed) its meaning begin to shift. Instead of a "useful purpose" it turns into a visual experience playing with the viewer's expectations and trained knowledge: art or construction site, clothes or costume, fake or real?