Carts & Waggons (2010)

The Carts and Waggons of Gunter Puller are previously stable objects and situations, which by a simple roll of a wheel are turned into a playful reminder on how things should not be accepted as they are given. Piercing through the walls and connecting the inside with the outside, the public with the intimate, climbing staircases like strange plants, or sitting in corners on pedestals like old sculptures, these wheels attached to wires and growing from objects are creating a sense of mobility and instilling the desire for communication in the most inert entity. For the exhibition at the Salzburger Kunstverein, Carts and Waggons will create a network in the space of the institution, linking the different rooms, the objects which were already there and the ones temporarily brought, and not least the visitors themselves. Thus, the artwork will transgress its condition of object offered for contemplation and will trigger ...

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The Carts and Waggons of Gunter Puller are previously stable objects and situations, which by a simple roll of a wheel are turned into a playful reminder on how things should not be accepted as they are given. Piercing through the walls and connecting the inside with the outside, the public with the intimate, climbing staircases like strange plants, or sitting in corners on pedestals like old sculptures, these wheels attached to wires and growing from objects are creating a sense of mobility and instilling the desire for communication in the most inert entity. For the exhibition at the Salzburger Kunstverein, Carts and Waggons will create a network in the space of the institution, linking the different rooms, the objects which were already there and the ones temporarily brought, and not least the visitors themselves. Thus, the artwork will transgress its condition of object offered for contemplation and will trigger the impulse for moving one’s body and opening one’s mind.

Raluca Voinea, Curator

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