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The site-specific artistic intervention "Betreten auf eigene Gefahr / Enter at your own risk" by the French artist architect Pascal Brateau aims to establish a certain "space turn-around", based on the urban context and volume of the venue. The artworks between sculpture and architectural arrangement explore the space of the gallery - in particular the two existing levels and the small staircase, which connects them. The installation focuses on the opportunity to explore the environment, by changing the usual perspective.
The exhibited artworks question the image and perception of the house in the collective consciousness as secure, but vulnerable space for existence. Essential in this artistic intervention is the ambiguity of the works:
- the central piece, the poetical wooden structure "Vanité / vanity" applies the principle of palindrome (reading the same backward as forward), focusing on the duality of emptiness and abundance;
- the supposed transparency of "palito's house" depicts a closed and inaccessible fence;
- the drawing-sculptures "casa dos bicos" and "exTRAIT" contain the act of violence and at the same time demand the feeling of security.
"Betreten auf eigene Gefahr / Enter at your own risk" refers to the possibility to explore the construction on your own risk, but it appears further as indication for our own responsibility for taking decisions, for choosing certain points of view and building according opinions as a result.
The Exhibition is part of the new "Architecture+Art Weekend" (30. June + 1. July 2018), which relates to the the Theme "Berlin Remixing" of Festival "Make City" (14. June - 1. July 2018) and the "Tag der Architektur" (23. + 24. June 2018). This context gives further opportunities for creative dialogue between artists and architects, urban planners, landscape designers and city governments.
"Regarding the relationship between artists and city-makers, the public and private place is a difficult common ground, strewn with misunderstandings. We wish to interlock these close disciplines and offer playground for discussion." Pascal Brateau in 2017.
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Enter at your own risk / A suggestion to change the perspective
Pascal Brateau (FR), installation
Curator / Irina Ilieva
Exhibition: June 22 - July 13, 2018
Opening: Thursday, June 21, 2018, 7-11pm
Artist talk: Saturday, June 30, 2018, 5pm (please register)
Finissage: Friday, July 13, 2018, 7-23pm
Location: aquabitArt Gallery, Auguststraße 35, 10119 Berlin-Mitte
Open: Tuesday-Saturday 13-20 pm
Long opening hours, noon-10 pm during the Architecture + Art Weekend
The exhibition is supported by: aquabitArt Gallery and Maison de l'Architecture de Lorraine
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Pascal Brateau studied architecture in Nancy (Fr) and Porto (Pt). In 1994, he created the art fanzine "pierre inerte" with Jean Decap in Toulouse. In 1995, he founded a design and interior architecture studio in the Azores Islands. French''d.p.l.g.'' architect since 2000, he is one of the founders of the studio dbdarchitects and shares his time now between Nancy (Fr) and Berlin (De).
Artist/architect who is convinced that today art must occupy space, investing the slightest hidden corner of questioning and affecting all social classes, his pieces call out directly to the viewers, questioning them directly by disturbing their reality. The work takes place in a landscape, whatever it is : rural, urban, public or private, interior or even virtual.
(http://troisquatorze.fr.nf)
http://www.art.aquabit.com/de/ii/artArchitecture/2018-Betreten/Pascal%20Brateau_CV_BetretenAufEigeneGefahr_2018_EN.pdf
Irina Ilieva / aquabitArt. The architect Irina Ilieva is the founder of aquabitArt. In her exhibition space, which opened at the beginning of 2009 in Auguststrasse 35 in Berlin, she shows various artistic positions, moving in the experimental field between architecture, art, installations and new media. The gallery regularly hosts art talks, performances, discussions and lectures.
Under the title "Architecture+Art" Irina Ilieva regularly curates non profit, site specific exhibitions and develops projects for urban interventions. She frequently invites artists and architects, who’s work focuses on the interaction between architecture and art, exploring their common sides and the differences in their interplay.
(art.aquabit.com)
