Win-Win-Situation [2022]
Collected material and sketchy arrangements from observations during the Wolang? Residency [in an old casino building in the city centre] in Altenburg, Thuringia [DE]. The town is known for its historic playing card industry and for its rich tradition in printmaking, especially woodcuts and engravings, dating back to the Renaissance. A contemporary example is the DZA [Druckerei zu Altenburg], which has played a central role in printed art projects for decades.
Leitz Binder, Playing Cards and Printed Images. 35x35x8cm
The photographs come from many trips [of the artist who grew up in former Westgermany] around the city and the hinterlands. These landscapes around Altenburg are charged with sites of landmark events in German history, but nevertheless rather muted. The playing cards on the surface originate from discarded special editions commissioned by companies like IBM from local playing card printers.
There is a company specialised in detectors whose golden reflecting headquarters in the shape of a pyramid can be recognised from afar when the sun's rays shine in the right angle, which is very successful with its products. It sells the high-tech equipment mostly to amateur treasure hunters, but in a phone call an employee casually remarked that militaries in the Middle East have already taken an interest in the ability of the company’s georadar to scan deep into the ground.
Original Product Brochures and Newspaper, Framed Inkjet Print on Paper and Highres-Print on Paper. Dimensions variable