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      Alekos Hofstetter, Robert Sokol / Finissage Sa.6.11._RGB_Reinhold
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                    Einladung zur Ausstellungseröffnung am Freitag, den
                    12.11. ab 19 Uhr</b></p>
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                  <div class="moz-forward-container">Die Werke von EVOL,
                    Alekos Hofstetter und Robert Sokol führen uns in der
                    Ausstellung <b class=""><i class=""><font class=""
                          color="#444444">NOBODY WOHNT HIER NICHT MEHR </font></i></b>bei
                    WALDEN zu neuen künstlerischen Aussagen über die
                    Distanz, die unsere Gesellschaft inzwischen zur
                    Architektur der Moderne und ihrem
                    Fortschrittsgedanken unterhält.<br class="">
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                    Das Thema des Berliner Künstlers Evol sind urbane
                    Landschaften und Gebäude. Evol verwandelt
                    rechteckige Formen wie Kartons oder große
                    Betonblöcke in „Architektur“, indem er sie als
                    Häuserfassaden gestaltet. Inspiriert durch die
                    Fotografien, die Evol auf seinen Streifzügen durch
                    die Stadt macht, fertigt der Künstler
                    Sprühschablonen für seine Werke an: aus Kartons
                    werden Häuserblöcke, und die grauen Strom-, bzw.
                    Telekomkästen auf der Straße werden zu Plattenbauten
                    umgewandelt. Im Vordergrund von Evols Schaffen steht
                    die Frage nach der sozialen Konsequenz der
                    Architektur der Moderne für unsere urbane Gegenwart.
                    Und die Relevanz dieser künstlerischen Orientierung
                    erfährt eine zusätzliche Aufladung durch den
                    unaufhaltsam fortschreitenden Prozess der
                    Gentrifizierung und ist von bedrückender Aktualität.<br
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                    Die Bildwelt des Werkzyklus<i class=""> TANNHÄUSER
                      TOR </i>des Berliner Zeichners und Malers Alekos
                    Hofstetter ist maßgeblich von der Architektur der
                    Moderne beeinflusst. In seinen Zeichnungen auf
                    Papier spielt der Prozess des Nachdenkens über die
                    Begriffe der Zeit und der Erinnerung eine
                    entscheidende Rolle. Er konstruiert in seinen in
                    Mischtechnik (u.a. Tusche, Buntstifte und
                    Permanent-Marker) geschaffenen Zeichnungen durch
                    Überlagerung von zeichnerischen Ebenen ein neues
                    Verhältnis von Architektur zu ihrer Umgebung.
                    Alleine durch das fortschreitende Verschwinden der
                    nachkriegs-modernen Architektur aus unserer Umwelt
                    wird das Scheitern ihrer einstigen utopischen
                    Versprechungen offensichtlich und auch die daraus
                    resultierende Verlusterfahrung wird in Hofstetters
                    Werk thematisiert.<br class="">
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                  <div class="moz-forward-container"><font class="">Robert
                      Sokol nutzt die fotografische Darstellung von
                      Architektur, um die sozialen Realitäten urbaner
                      Verhältnisse sichtbar zu machen. Er fotografiert
                      seine Heimat Berlin-Neukölln, mit ihren Straßen,
                      öffentlichen Plätzen, Geschäften oder Cafés. Neben
                      seinen Fotografien, die Passantengruppen oder
                      Einzelne herausgreifen, oftmals als
                      Momentaufnahme, sind für ihn ebenso essayhafte
                      Abfolge und Milieustudien von Bedeutung.<br
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                      Die Ausstellung "Nobody wohnt hier nicht mehr"
                      setzt sich mit dem Verhältnis von Architektur zum
                      Begriff des Fortschritts vor dem Horizont der
                      Bildenden Kunst auseinander. Bildende Künstler
                      werden ähnlich wie Architekten als Agenten des
                      Fortschritts wahrgenommen. Die
                      Fortschrittsmetapher wird bei der bildenden Kunst
                      von dem Schöpferischen und der ästhetischen
                      Diskursrelevanz bestimmt, wohingegen bei den
                      Architekten die Zurechnung eines
                      Konstruktionsprinzips an einen Konstrukteur
                      entscheidend ist. Somit garantiert der Architekt
                      Kontrolle, Stabilität, Permanenz und Fortschritt
                      in einer Welt, in der genau dies immer mehr
                      unmöglich wird.<br class="">
                      Im Sinne des Stofflichen, des Konstantseins und
                      der zeitlichen Ausweitung des Architektonischen
                      ist für den französischen Philosophen Jacques
                      Derrida die Architektur die „letzte Festung der
                      Metaphysik“, weil sie eine Präsenz darstellt, die
                      nicht nur für sich steht, sondern sowohl für
                      andere als auch für später. Architektur kann somit
                      eine sichtbare Zumutung im Vergleich zu anderen
                      Zumutungen sein, die verschwinden, sobald sie da
                      waren.<br class="">
                      Entscheidend ist in der Moderne die Idee, dass der
                      Fortschritt einer einheitlichen Vernunft, einer
                      Idee, einem Willen entspricht. Deswegen lässt sich
                      der Begriff der Architektur als Metapher für den
                      Bauplan nehmen. Und es ist deswegen nicht
                      entscheidend, wie das Ästhetische aussieht,
                      sondern dass im Ästhetischen selbst ein
                      Konstruktionsplan wahrnehmbar wird.<br class="">
                      Das Konstruktionsprinzip des Vernünftigen ist es,
                      welches die Metapher des Fortschritts in der
                      Moderne ausmacht. Und dies erklärt auch, warum
                      Architekten immer wieder über Dinge gefragt
                      werden, die mit Architektur im engeren Sinne gar
                      nichts zu tun haben. Man fragt sie danach, wie wir
                      leben sollen.</font></div>
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                      size="2" color="#263e0f">In the exhibition</font><font
                      class="" size="2"><font class="" color="#232323"> <i
                          class="">„Nobody wohnt hier nicht mehr</i><i
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                        color="#263e0f"> at WALDEN, the works of EVOL,
                        Alekos Hofstetter and Robert Sokol lead us to
                        new artistic statements about the distance that
                        our society now maintains to modernist
                        architecture and its idea of progress.</font><br
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                      size="2" color="#263e0f">The theme of the Berlin
                      artist Evol is urban landscapes and buildings.
                      Evol transforms rectangular shapes such as
                      cardboard boxes or large concrete blocks into
                      "architecture" by designing them as house facades.
                      Inspired by the photographs that Evol takes on his
                      forays through the city, the artist makes spray
                      templates for his works: cardboard boxes become
                      blocks of houses, and the grey electricity or
                      telecom boxes on the street are converted into
                      prefabricated buildings. At the forefront of
                      Evol's work is the question of the social
                      consequences of modernist architecture for our
                      urban present. And the relevance of this artistic
                      orientation is given an additional charge by the
                      inexorably advancing process of gentrification and
                      is depressingly topical.<br class="">
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                      size="2" color="#263e0f">The pictorial world of
                      the cycle of works <i class="">TANNHÄUSER TOR</i> by
                      the Berlin draughtsman and painter Alekos
                      Hofstetter is significantly influenced by
                      modernist architecture. In his drawings on paper,
                      the process of thinking about the concepts of time
                      and memory plays a decisive role. In his drawings
                      created in mixed media (including ink, colored
                      pencils and permanent markers), he constructs a
                      new relationship between architecture and its
                      environment by superimposing graphic layers.The
                      progressive disappearance of post-war modern
                      architecture from our environment alone makes the
                      failure of its former utopian promises obvious and
                      the resulting experience of loss is also addressed
                      in Hofstetter’s work.<br class="">
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                      size="2" color="#263e0f">Robert Sokol uses the
                      photographic representation of architecture to
                      make the social realities of urban conditions
                      visible. He photographs his homeland
                      Berlin-Neukölln, with its streets, public squares,
                      shops or cafés. In addition to his photographs,
                      which single out groups of passers-by or
                      individuals, often as snapshots, essay-like
                      sequences and milieu studies are also important to
                      him.<br class="">
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                      size="2" color="#263e0f">The exhibition "Nobody no
                      longer lives here" deals with the relationship
                      between architecture and the concept of progress
                      against the horizon of the visual arts. Similar to
                      architects, visual artists are perceived as agents
                      of progress. In the visual arts, the metaphor of
                      progress is determined by the creative and
                      aesthetic discourse relevance, whereas in the case
                      of architects, the attribution of a construction
                      principle to a designer is crucial. Thus, the
                      architect guarantees control, stability,
                      permanence and progress in a world where this is
                      becoming increasingly impossible. For the French
                      philosopher Jacques Derrida, architecture is the
                      "last fortress of metaphysics" in the sense of the
                      material, constantness and temporal expansion of
                      the architectural, because it represents a
                      presence that stands not only for itself, but for
                      both others and later. Architecture can thus be a
                      visible imposition compared to other impositions
                      that disappear as soon as they were there. The
                      decisive factor in modernity is the idea that
                      progress corresponds to a unified reason, an idea,
                      a will. That is why the concept of architecture
                      can be used as a metaphor for the building plan.
                      And it is therefore not decisive what the
                      aesthetic looks like, but that a construction plan
                      itself becomes perceptible in the aesthetic.<br
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                      It is the construction principle of the reasonable
                      that constitutes the metaphor of progress in
                      modernity. And this also explains why architects
                      are repeatedly asked about things that have
                      nothing to do with architecture in the narrower
                      sense. They are asked how we should live.</font></div>
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                        Hofstetter, <b class=""><i class="">Wolfsschlucht
                            II</i></b>, 2018, Acryl-Marker, Tusche,
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                      am Samstag, 6.11. ab 18 Uhr</span></div>
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