Opération Béton
In the organizer's words:
Karl-Heinz Adler. Erasmus Schröter. Carsten Nicolai. Marta Dyachenko
The ambivalent building material concrete, which carries the creative process as well as the entire spectrum between destruction, reconstruction and environmental catastrophe, has long moved and challenged artists. Opération Béton is the title of French experimental filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard's first film, which was released in 1954. The enormous versatility and usability of the building material made of cement, stone and water allows for endless possibilities of application in architecture and art.
In times of climate crisis, however, the modern building material, whose range of uses seems limitless, is always associated with the man-made disasters of this world.
While Karl-Heinz Adler's shaped stone systems stand for the reinterpretation of the material in a time of reconstruction, in Carsten Nicolai's video "Betonschiff ohne Namen" (Concrete ship without a name) the contradiction between decay and preservation becomes the omnipresent theme of a musical and visual intervention.
For his photographs, Erasmus Schröter staged the bunkers of the "Atlantic Wall", built from millions of tons of concrete and commissioned by the German occupation in 1942, in coloured light, creating an atmosphere between past megalomania, threat and ridicule. This is intensified in the present in view of modern air-to-ground missiles, portable anti-tank weapons and military conflicts that have become more perfidious. Preservation and destruction, but also the great possibilities of creating something new from the past, have become a focus for artist Marta Dyachenko and her cast concrete sculptures in recent years. The complex relationship between nature and man and the socially constructed view of what is and will be is reflected in exemplary fashion in the artworks, which are combined with concrete as a material characterized by both opportunity and catastrophe.
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