VERKEHRSZEICHEN

The exhibition

VERKEHRSZEICHEN

Photographs by Andreas Züst and Christoph Sebastian

10 October – 20 November 2010

Andreas Züst
KREISEL (ROUNDABOUTS)

„Andreas Züst’s (1947–2000) encyclopedic libido instantly embraced all phenomena. He would get especially excited about collectible objects that encompassed the everyday and the metaphysical. Roundabouts combine utility and beauty, purpose with no purpose. Roundabouts evolved from individual traffic systems based on efficiency. However, the centerpiece of this rational traffic planning highlight generates an area with no higher purpose than its own existence. This is where beauty and the divine is found in classical aesthetics. A wasteland in the field of functionality, no-mans-land, an empty middle. Here, you are free to do whatever you want. (…)“
Plinio Bachmann

Christoph Sebastian
KRAFTFAHRZEUGE (MOTOR VEHICLES)

Christoph Sebastian’s (*1973) interest focuses on the automobile. However, it is not the “racy and streamlined proportions” or the “agility of the firm chassis” (Georg Kacher) that fascinates him. Instead, he sees cars as omnipresent industrial mass products, one of the symbols that define the present. Sebastian does not photograph the automobile as a glamorous icon of design or object of human desire and emotions. Instead, his comprehensive visual archive – this exhibition presents the chapters blue, white, red – documents the manifold game set-ups of a world encompassing cultural symbol.

Der Text von Plinio Bachmann ist dem Buch von Andreas Züst ‚Roundabouts‘, Edition Patrick Frey Zürich 2003 entnommen. Fotografien von Andreas Züst mit freundlicher Genehmigung von Mara Züst und Galerie & Edition Marlene Frei

• Contact

Exhibition opening
Saturday, 9 October 2010 at 5.00 pm
bildkultur | galerie, Markelstr. 19, 70193 Stuttgart


Introduction
Antje Haferkamp M.A. | Berlin
Dr. Matthias Bullinger | bildkultur Stuttgart


The exhibition is on view
Sunday 10 October – Saturday 20 November 2010


Gallery hours
Monday and Wednesday 5 pm – 7 pm
and on appointment