The Chicken Or The Egg? Tobias Rehberger Exhibits at Museum Ludwig
Tobias Rehberger's exhibit the chicken-and-egg-no-problem wall-painting will run at the Museum Ludwig in Amsterdam from June 28 to September 21.
As if in a march past, Tobias Rehberger presents in this installation some 40 works spread along 70 metres. Casting chronology to the wind, he has simply placed works from 15 years of creative production next to one another: chairs reminiscent of designer classics, his ‘vase portraits’, artificial limbs mounted on plinths, paper flowers with a Japanese ring to them, lamps made of Velcro tape, objects made of Perspex, video racks. Lit by spotlights, the works all cast their shadows onto the white wall facing them. The old works are bathed in a new glory, while simultaneously a new work comes into being: a mural made of light, shadows and colour.
With this installation Tobias Rehberger transposes three dimensions into two. By combining the play of light with painting for his wall piece, he retains the dependency between the objects in space and what is depicted on the wall – for if the lights went out the wall painting would more or less disappear. “I like the idea that something elaborate and solid could be the starting point for something vague and sketchy“, as Tobias Rehberger comments on his installation.
What was there first: the chicken or the egg? Tobias Rehberger’s wall painting cannot be imagined without his sculptures, just as the egg is impossible without the chicken. But: is a three-dimensional work conceivable without a two-dimensional sketch? Is a chicken possible without an egg? What came first? Rehberger’s sculptural work and its shadow image confront one another like he chicken and the egg.
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