Objects, artefacts and other damages, 2022
Digital print on aluminium composite panel
Sheet size (H x W): 6.5 x 9.0 cm
unique specimen
Lot number 27
Minimum bid: 800,- EUR / estimated price 1.600,- to 2.800,- EUR
Mischa Kuball
- Über das Werk: The photographic work objects, artefacts, and other damages makes disturbing things observable: cherished cultural assets worthy of preservation with inestimable values for the identities of diverse societies seem to fall into a never-ending stream of transience. They flow through the collective in a meandering Möbius strip. Our gaze cannot be turned away from the catastrophe taking place before our eyes, from the figures and busts, coins and vases in an unstoppable stream. Mischa Kuball creates an abstract river and water scene in which familiar artefacts from various museums and everyday life are washed away. Will they possibly be returned to their places of origin - or are they permanently lost to all cultures? And where do we stand: are we on the edge of this debate...? In objects, artefacts, and other damages, Mischa Kuball not only addresses the conflict between history and a 'present future', but also the question of the provenance of the passing objects. He is also concerned with visualising his own attitude to current cultural practice. objects, artefacts, and other damages is also a figure of thought, dysfunctional, unstoppable - a place of the cultural current that sweeps everything away... (This text has been automatically translated with DeepL.)
- Mischa Kuball
- In his works, the light and conceptual artist Mischa Kuball repeatedly explores architectural spaces and their social and political contexts. Today, 'clean drinking water' reflects the state of development of a civil society - for almost a billion people, the supply is currently not guaranteed! For Kuball, it therefore represents a historically charged state of affairs, which he addresses both politically and aesthetically in his work objects, artefacts, and other damages. (This text has been automatically translated with DeepL.)
