“You quit being The Sabine Women”
ready-made:
parts of an old abandoned sculpture (dated from the 80’s), in fibre glass.
Set 1
300 cm x 200 cm x 150 cm
Set 2
600 cm x 700 cm x 150 cm
Behind the building where this exhibition took place in the Park de la Tete d’Or in Lyon, France there were laying the rests of an old sculpture made out of polyester and fibre glass.
Those were the abandoned color pipes of an 80’s sculpture , which carried the name of “The Sabin Women”. Its pieces were dirty, fully with spiderwebs, dead leaves and water from last rain.
The artwork now was ‘dead’ but had lived before and now only as a remembering. It’s physical part though; its matter, was dismantled and abandoned.
Juana, Claudia’s daughter was 4 when making a construction with chairs in the middle of the room. The construction with those found objects was interesting. -“That’s Art!” did I say. Juana’s mind moved freely through the principles of creation. There is this potential in kids for creating and they do it with full liberty.
The pieces I found weren’t anymore the old artwork they once were. I did reactivate them, using them as a ready-made and giving them a new space of significance.
In older days they were brilliant in color and now they had to tell us, they had been dead and resurrected though in a new form and under a new significance.
The concept was thoroughly misunderstood by the technicians who put the lighting in the exhibition, so they moved the pieces disassembling the artwork because ‘it was on their way’…
When I came and saw what happened I just said to myself:-” Well, let it be like that then!” And just left them disassembled for the whole exhibition generating big confusion amongst the organisers of the event, leading them to call me “L’Enfant Terrible”.
yFor me it was logic it had to be like that, cause I didn’t want to make a remake from a ready-made.
It was just at the finissage of the exhibition, I put them back like they were intended to be.
Photos 1 – 2 by: Patric Tato Wittig