Collaboration with Philipp Ricklefs, 2018
Installation view
Hofskulptur #3 @ Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin
site specific, interactive installation
stainless and black steel, steel coils, metallic varnish, two comp car paint, rubber
For the series of the HaL „Hofskulpturen“, which was started in 2016, the artist duo Janine Eggert and Philipp Ricklefs have conceived a group of three sculptures that take up the principle of the so-called “wobblers” or “feather whippers” as they are known from playgrounds. In doing so, they pick up three geometrical bodies known from art history, which have been repeatedly referenced, recycled and almost made unbearable to encounter in contemporary art over the last twenty years: a geodesic dome after Buckminster Fuller, a truncated rhombohedron (Melencolia I stone after Albrecht Dürer) and a fragment of the Endless Column by Constantin Brâncusi, which the artists set aside and used as a seesaw.
Under the title “Riding Giants” the sculptures are adapted to the size of adults. The “feather whippers” should explicitly be used. Eggert / Ricklefs want to provide a different, relative environment with this installation. Modern classics turn into fun-playing toys. Viewers are invited to become part of the work, experiencing it both physically and intellectually.
Eggert/Ricklefs themselves state „The three chosen forms are ambivalent for us. Because of our interest in architecture and geometry, they are fascinating and meaningful to us as shapes and icons. As ongoing revenants in contemporary works, they have become “grabber boxes” in the reference system of art, from which it is better to keep your hands off.“
Installation view
Hofskulptur #3 @ Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin
site specific, interactive installation
stainless and black steel, steel coils, metallic varnish, two comp car paint, rubber
For the series of the HaL „Hofskulpturen“, which was started in 2016, the artist duo Janine Eggert and Philipp Ricklefs have conceived a group of three sculptures that take up the principle of the so-called “wobblers” or “feather whippers” as they are known from playgrounds. In doing so, they pick up three geometrical bodies known from art history, which have been repeatedly referenced, recycled and almost made unbearable to encounter in contemporary art over the last twenty years: a geodesic dome after Buckminster Fuller, a truncated rhombohedron (Melencolia I stone after Albrecht Dürer) and a fragment of the Endless Column by Constantin Brâncusi, which the artists set aside and used as a seesaw.
Under the title “Riding Giants” the sculptures are adapted to the size of adults. The “feather whippers” should explicitly be used. Eggert / Ricklefs want to provide a different, relative environment with this installation. Modern classics turn into fun-playing toys. Viewers are invited to become part of the work, experiencing it both physically and intellectually.
Eggert/Ricklefs themselves state „The three chosen forms are ambivalent for us. Because of our interest in architecture and geometry, they are fascinating and meaningful to us as shapes and icons. As ongoing revenants in contemporary works, they have become “grabber boxes” in the reference system of art, from which it is better to keep your hands off.“
