Volker Crone
Volker Crone

„apparat XII “
Volker Crone and Sebastian Neubauer
kinetic object / diorama with music
2021
ca 220cm (height) x 45cm (length) x 90cm (width)

Online until October 31st
Visit Galerie Postel

What happens when different artistic positions are juxtaposed and woven together to create a new whole? This question is explored in „apparat XII“ (2021). The work quotes and interprets selected works of art and takes „man and nature“ as its theme, which is not free of contradictions. Crone and Neubauer playfully present an unique experience: an (artificial) moon, an (artificial) lightning, in an (artificial) museum. Through a viewing window in a black column, a diorama can be seen.
As a reference on the visual level, the works „The weather project“ (2003/2004) by Ólafur Elíasson and „The Lightning Field“ (1974/1977) by Walter De Maria are taken up, to create something new. For this purpose, the turbine hall of the Tate London was reconstructed as a miniature. The artificial sun is replaced by the moon. Numerous metal rods - in the style of the steel rods that were erected in New Mexico in the 1970s - are raised by a mechanism and lowered back to the ground. By enlivening the artificial space in this way, the metallic poles act like visitors.
At the same time, a mash-up of the two well-known pieces of music „The Moonlight Sonata“ (1801) by Ludwig van Beethoven and „Claire de Lune“ (1890) by Claude Debussy can be heard. It serves the melancholic but also dreamy atmosphere. A romantic nostalgia is stimulated in the visitors and thus complements the sensory experience of a fabricated nature.
All the selected artists use nature for their art or speak for it as an advocate. Is it possible or necessary to take this role at all? Where should the boundary between man and nature even be, and when is a surrogate of nature perceptible or tolerable? Haven‘t we gotten used to it a long time ago and hardly know anything else?
„apparat XII“ sees itself as a critical, reflective, contemporary emblem of the still ongoing discourse surrounding the two so-called antipodes of nature and culture.
Elíasson and De Maria, as well as Beethoven and Debussy, each enter into a dialogue. The resulting forms - the exhibited physical object and the auditory piece of music - form another duo. Ultimately, the work itself is also the result of an artistic dialogue between Volker Crone and Sebastian Neubauer.

„apparat XII “
Volker Crone and Sebastian Neubauer
kinetic object / diorama with music
2021
ca 220cm (height) x 45cm (length) x 90cm (width)

Online until October 31st
Visit Galerie Postel

What happens when different artistic positions are juxtaposed and woven together to create a new whole? This question is explored in „apparat XII“ (2021). The work quotes and interprets selected works of art and takes „man and nature“ as its theme, which is not free of contradictions. Crone and Neubauer playfully present an unique experience: an (artificial) moon, an (artificial) lightning, in an (artificial) museum. Through a viewing window in a black column, a diorama can be seen.
As a reference on the visual level, the works „The weather project“ (2003/2004) by Ólafur Elíasson and „The Lightning Field“ (1974/1977) by Walter De Maria are taken up, to create something new. For this purpose, the turbine hall of the Tate London was reconstructed as a miniature. The artificial sun is replaced by the moon. Numerous metal rods - in the style of the steel rods that were erected in New Mexico in the 1970s - are raised by a mechanism and lowered back to the ground. By enlivening the artificial space in this way, the metallic poles act like visitors.
At the same time, a mash-up of the two well-known pieces of music „The Moonlight Sonata“ (1801) by Ludwig van Beethoven and „Claire de Lune“ (1890) by Claude Debussy can be heard. It serves the melancholic but also dreamy atmosphere. A romantic nostalgia is stimulated in the visitors and thus complements the sensory experience of a fabricated nature.
All the selected artists use nature for their art or speak for it as an advocate. Is it possible or necessary to take this role at all? Where should the boundary between man and nature even be, and when is a surrogate of nature perceptible or tolerable? Haven‘t we gotten used to it a long time ago and hardly know anything else?
„apparat XII“ sees itself as a critical, reflective, contemporary emblem of the still ongoing discourse surrounding the two so-called antipodes of nature and culture.
Elíasson and De Maria, as well as Beethoven and Debussy, each enter into a dialogue. The resulting forms - the exhibited physical object and the auditory piece of music - form another duo. Ultimately, the work itself is also the result of an artistic dialogue between Volker Crone and Sebastian Neubauer.