Plazoleto [a one day exhibition at the Skyline Plaza], with: Jakob Brugge, Bradley Davies, Andrew de Freitas, Richard Ess, Max Eulitz, Zoë Field, Vera Karlsson, Jürgen Kleft, Veit Laurent Kurz, Philipp Simon, Vanessa Sioufi, Sung Tieu, Raphaela Vogel & Paul Sochacki.
Skyline Garden, Europa- Allee, 60327 Frankfurt am Main
18.05.2017
Pine, Himalayan Birch and Sycamore trees
rainwater putting a green a putting green
70,000 gallons to fuel up
simply pop into
Europe, the U5 and Albert Speer Jr.
a network of past, paths to public space
a subway within the mall
a serenity of firsts
a cooperate cistern that store for irrigation
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the complimentary gardens
In and on this special hybrid site of the Skyline Garden, Max Eulitz, Line Ebert and Marie Oucherif initiated an exhibition to which 14 artists were invited to develop or select works that responded directly to this site- and time-specific situation. The exhibition title Plazoleto, in its playful mutation and trivialization of plaza, refers directly to the specificity of the place between consumption, capital and contemplative (pseudo-)public park enjoyment. The works were positioned between and within the branching network of paths and areas on the roof garden. They claim their presence as art objects partly with traditional elements of art production and presentation.
Plazoleto brings together artists and their works, which, with their hidden placement or everyday objecthood, seek to elude precise definition and provide a number of intended moments of irritation. These confront the recipients with their traditional roles and at the same time challenge them to engage with the location of the exhibition and its character as a semi-public intermediate space of Skyline Plaza. Nevertheless, the exhibition project does not represent a nostalgic appropriation of the art in public space exhibited inflationarily in Western modernism with its autonomous and static free sculptures and their claim to universal validity. Rather, Plazoleto was an exhibition that occupied the particularly special location of the Skyline Gardens in a choral-artistic polyphony like an open source network of messages and commented on its ideological-geographical location. A physical (and spiritual) presence that perhaps does not fade into pure relictness, but remains tangible as a present echo.
Marie Oucherif 