Florian Slotawa (1972, Germany)

人や自身の所有物を使ってオブジェクトをつくる作家。徹底具合に脱帽です。
所有物がアートだから、一度自分の持ってる物を全部コレクターに売ってしまったそうな。素っ裸ですきっと。逆に、コレクターの所持品を借りてきて展示スペースに展示してしまうパターンもあり。写真の作品は多分後者の、タイトルはManheimer Bestandsaufnahme. アイディアもさることながらイメージもきれいだなぁ。最近はオブジェクトとしてみせることが多いようだけれど。

During the initial years of his career Slotawa exclusively used his personal belongings as materials for his sculptures. He arranged pencils, clothes, pieces of furniture and even his own car in various settings. Photographic series documented elements of this body of objects according to typology: one image would depict all his trousers, another all his cups, or spoons, or chairs. This phase ended in 2002, when he sold his ‘Gesamtbesitz’ (complete belongings) to a German collector. In anticipation of the fact that he would no longer possess anything connected with his past, Slotawa had already started to accumulate elements from venues hosting his exhibitions as material for future works. In 2001, when invited to put on a show at the Museum Abteiberg in Mönchengladbach, he asked for works from the museum’s collection to be moved to his apartment so that he could live alongside these public assets, and then mounted an exhibition of photographs documenting the co-existence ‘Schätze aus zwei Jahrtausenden’ (Treasures from Two Millennia). In all these works we can see the superimposition of public and private spheres. Slotawa exhibits himself and his belongings, or those of others, and in some cases induces museum staff, and spectators, to participate in these exchanges. 

15. May 2010 by Nishiko
Categories: Conceptual art, Contemporary, Germany, Installation, Photography | Leave a comment

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