- Venue
- KARST
- Starts
- Friday, June 22, 2012
- Ends
- Sunday, July 15, 2012
- Address
- 22 George Place Stonehouse Plymouth PL1 3NY
- Location
- South West England
For its inaugural exhibition, KARST proudly presents the UK Debut Show of German-based collective KONSORTIUM. In this exhibition the three artists have designed a site-specific engagement within the unique architecture. Originally the site of a chapel, 22 George Place was bombed during the war and consequently this industrial space was constructed. Newly adapted as a contemporary art venue, KARST’s decision to invite ‘spaceinvader’ to begin the proceedings is a playful gesture intended to reactivate the narrative of the building. Spaceinvader is a metaphor for a travelling artist, who can intervene artistically in diverse situations, spaces and systems, and can ‘invade’ and occupy any location. Although practising independently as artists, as KONSORTIUM they work to produce enveloping environments in essence of the German term gesamtkunstwerk; ‘an entire work’. Within KARST’s industrial space, the integration of architectural models, photographs, signs and typography, all delivered with a graphic minimalist aesthetic, forms an encapsulating ‘neo-modernist’ environment. The key to this exhibition is heterogeneity; the clashing and forging of diverse contrasting elements. As a gesamtkunstwerk the potent individual narratives collapse; history and meaning is kaleidoscopically rearranged. Ultimately however, KONSORTIUM request “the hush of interpretation so that the whole can become greater than the sum of its parts”.
