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| Michael E. Smith, Larry Bird, (2010), KOW Gallery Berlin |
Yesterday a visit to Culturgest, an expansive, museum-like gallery in the basement of a monstrous, post-modern hulk of a building in the business city centre. Ten of us from Atelier Concorde had been invited to take a tour with curator Miguel Wandschneider around the two current exhibitions; Katinka Bock, and Michael E. Smith. Though both impressive in their own ways, it was hard not to be more strongly affected by Smith's dangerously sparse arrangements, suggesting accident-damaged body parts and hung heads. They are oily rags of works, and they leave a smear in the imagination.
The tour was thorough - 6 hours later we emerged into the afternoon heat feeling mostly like having a drink. The image pictured was billowing on the side of the building, though not present in the show. I find it very violent. A goose, emptied out, yanked into shape, cut with shears, titled after a basketballer(?)
