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BERLIN 2007-2008

In a living room in Berlin was exhibited art to enforce curiousness and an "outside" observer perspetive. In a position of voyeur the spectator would engage in viewing art in another matter. This process is also knwn from "BigBrother" the reality show or for example face book, that people have a narcissistic, exhibitionistic urge.

"Domesticated reality & overloaded context of art"
Blending in with the atmosphere of a casually interiored Berlin apartment any audience visiting could make their own mind up whether the art was meant as a social badge or if the architecture was purposefully downgraded to rid the context of any of the usual art-gallery-aesthetics. The intention with exhibiting art in living rooms was to show the hypocracy in moder art: "designed" art. In an age of constant recycling of ideas the design-thinking reflects the mind of the ultimate subjective individual, immersed in materia, disengaging from any realness behinds phenomena. Producing methaphors of signification. Modern art as this platonical reflection is often made by outsorced labour be it painter assistants, builders or other more knowledgable hands. Making the artist more or less the manager the creative head of a advertising/branding agency of output of objects and media. Contemporary art has paradoxically removed itself from any real aesthetical purpose and revolutionary potential.

The true liberation however does not lie in art but in the art of the real so to speak. Domesticated experience emphasises "the real" element of art as it has no( fine) art context to cover behind. If it's just a pipe lying in the living room, it IS in fact a pipe.

see overview of exhibitions here

Aug 2006-Aug 2007, R.T.Hansen

R.T.Hansen exhibited his home along with art exhibitions to show the emergence of art and design. Other projects include transforming an art gallery to interior design retail (2007), furniture of recycled wood (2008) and wall-papers of old walls (forthcoming).