17th. May until 14th June 2024
Aufsichtszeiten: every Thursday 17-19 o'clock AND Saturday, May 18th, 12-16 o'clock
What are the b‑sides?
Are they models of extravagant rooms with a rooms with a wobbly depth effect?
Or visually confusing illustrations? Printed on the back of a package?
Are these things illustrated objects orobject-like images?
As it is so often the case with the artistic work of Stefanie Pürschler, the works have a strange hybrid character.
They are three-dimensional, functional objects (more precisely, they are the cardboard boxes of various consumer goods from chocolates to pizza), which, after an excursion into bi-dimensionality (in the printing process), get a new, astonishingly three-dimensional presence. So they have a relationship to architectural models. Often with Stefanie Pürschler, two scales are brought together. The large, monumental space of the pictorial motif inscribes itself into the minimal space of the packaging, nestles into its folds and flaps and adapts to its format.
It can never be clearly determined whether the structure of the cardboard was there first or the structure of the depicted space. And as always with Stefanie Pürschler, the series lives
on the inherent tension between the image carrier and the motif; the surprising harmonization of these two poles is a veritable tour de force.