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| JAN BÜNNIG Wir bleiben bis 1000 Uhr | |
| March 25 – April 29, 2006 | |
| opening: March 25, 5-9 pm | |
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Jan Bünnig Wir bleiben bis 1000 UhrMarch 25 – April 29, 2006 opening reception: March 25, 5 – 9 pm For his first solo exhibition with Nice & Fit Jan Bünnig will make a clay sculpture in the gallery the day before the opening. He will sleep in the space and continue the work on Saturday. Also on view, Schöne Form (Nice Shape), a polyutherane sculptural object. His work, in his own words is “muddy, solid, slow, alive”. To quote Karl Blümel, his teacher in a clay workshop for children, “He is working with clear and vivid ideas, in a determinate, peaceful, sound manner. Always focused.” Always-already. The human figure that he built on an armature hanging in his studio for several weeks was wet, dramatic, almost ridiculous in its pathos. He completed it the night before the opening, working with clay and listening to techno interspersed with the occasional “Walk on the wild side”. Like a workman coming to the building site, doing his thing, taking a cigarette break. That night, passerby could look through the window and see this wet clay man (Adam?) chained to the sculptor’s tools. Jan slept in the gallery in a tiny bed, in sheets he had bought that week. He wanted to recreate the aesthetic of a hotel room in Bremen where he had spent the night. He left behind a weird, evocative sculptural object. (Schöne Form / Nice Shape). During the opening, the next day, Bünnig set the work free to its fall. He cut the wire and it dropped without delay on the floor. In the back of his mind there lingered the thought that God was making Adam and left to smoke a fag when his creation escaped. There are sexual connotations; the work is about transformation, the materiality of being, process, whether spiritual or physical- Certain obsessions with the body, the Matrix, and what happens when nobody looks are recurrent. His work originates from fundamental questions of existence, but they are underscored by mischievous gestures. His process in the studio is complex yet the works seem effortless, occasionally funny; whether his large scale projects or smaller objects that emphasize “thingness” without ever narrowing the horizon of possibility. Very simple but not so simple. As Godard said in an interview with Gavin Smith: “ If you can bring the metaphysic through ordinary things, then it’s good. This is the task of the artist. A simple apple by Cezanne is more than a simple apple. Or just a simple apple”. |
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