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Failing the Future, Expansion is a series of 17, partially polished erratic boulders from the area around Kunstverein Springhornhof in Niedersachesen, DE and one large white and black granite off-cut (1.72 m x 1.67m) from a public sculpture by HAWOLI.
Each of these terrestrial rocks has between 1 and 426 2-8 mm, green olivine crystals set into them. Using a map projection of known exoplanets in the universe, I placed each rock to coincide with the location of an exoplanet or cluster of exoplanets so that each olivine crystal represents an identified exoplanet within the material of space.
Olivine is crucial to life as we know it. It makes up 60-80% of the Earth's upper mantle, is theorized to be the main mineral in Mars and Venus' mantles, and make up a majority of interstellar dust. Olivine is essential in natural carbon sequestration processes, absorbing carbon dioxide in a 1:1 ratio by weight and plays a significant role in plate tectonics, qualities which help regulate the global climate and make the dynamic equilibrium essential to life possible.
HAWOLI is a German painter and sculptor who exhibited work in the gallery's first exhibition in 1972 and has major public sculptures throughout Germany. This exhibition in 1972, Aktion Heidebild (Heathland Image Action), organized by Galerie Falazik, is cited as the moment when a European form of "Nature Art" took shape and differentiated itself from the Land Art movement in the United States. Exhibiting artists included Dieter Asmus, Erwin Bechtold, Joseph Beuys, Ulrich Erben, Lothar Fischer, Rupprecht Geiger, Gotthard Graubner, Jens Lausen, Heinz Mack, C.O. Paeffgen, Otto Piene, Bernard Schultze, Daniel Spoerri, and Timm Ulrichs.
This work is part of the group show Parallaxie and shares space with work by Ahmed Isam Aldin, Ulrike Buck, Leslie Kulesh, Albin Looström, Paul DD Smith, and Anna M. Szaflarski. Brochure design by Taylor Goetsch.
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PARALLAXIE
25.06.- 02.10.2022
Ahmed Isam Aldin, Ulrike Buck, Andrea Canepa, Joel Kuennen, Leslie Kulesh, Albin Looström, Paul DD Smith, Anna M. Szaflarski, Daniel von Bothmer
Invited and co-curated by:
Kinderhook Caracas (Sol Calero & Christopher Kline)
Kreuzberg Pavillon (Heiko Pfreundt & Lisa Schorm)
The Mycological Twist (Eloïse Bonneviot & Anne de Boer)
Kunstverein Springhornhof
Tiefe Straße 4 | 29643 Neuenkirchen | Lüneburger Heide
www.springhornhof.de
Tuesday-Sunday: 14:00 - 18:00
Monday: Closed
Eröffnung / Opening : 25.06.2022 | 17:00 Uhr
Begrüßung : Prof. Dr. Martin Warnke (1. Vorsitzender) und Bettina v. Dziembowski (Künstlerische Leitung)
Prolog : Heiko Pfreundt (Kreuzberg Pavillon)
There are places that feel like distance itself. Like the barely recognizable, but resistant, distance between reality and virtuality. Two levels that now seem almost identical. A parallactic shift that sees the sculpture park as a form of settlement and allows proximity to hyperobjects like sparkling exoplanets. The distance is real is virtual. It is in-between, an archaic landscape rhythm marked by movements and migrations. A moving perspective, in the midst of sonic fields.
Parallaxie is a collective exhibition project and program of the two Berlin-based project spaces Kreuzberg Pavillon and Kinderhook & Caracas, as well as the Berlin-based artist group The Mycological Twist. For the development of the parallactic exhibition space, each of the three groups has invited three artists.
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