If you are thinking of an orange safety cone, you can imagine rows of the small reflective objects placed around temporarily parked vehicles or, for example, next to pits. But on a walk through Gaffathe recent exhibition, Increase bee Kunsthalle ArbonThe daily face took the form of an indispensable, monumental structure.
Gaffa is a collective founded nine years ago by Wanja Harb, Linus Lutz, Dario Forlin and Lucian Kunz. Through a characteristic mix of humor, irony and an interdisciplinary approach with Zines, collages, photography, sculpture and installation, the group challenges our perceptions of physical space, history and society.
In their sometimes absurd installations, Gaffa often brings out the outdoors, such as importing a beach chair and umbrella into a concrete room or building a huge brown slug that slid over a gallery floor. In IncreaseTraffic serves as the primary focus – both its symbols and the fine line between regulation and chaos.
Gaffa transformed the Swiss art gallery into a parking garage with an extra long stretch limo, an entry -level card, orange cone and directive sign with a double arrow. We do not know who the car belongs or where they are.
Viewers are transported to a kind of Alice in Wonderland Experience where the scale of everything feels confusing and incongruent. The car, although life -size, is made of cardboard and the yellow plate is an oil painting.
“Underground garages and parking garages are places that we usually only notice,” says the gallery in a statement. “They are specially built ‘not places’ you hardly pay anyone, but they still have his own aesthetics: the strict geometry of the parking spaces, the rhythmic movement of the barriers, the seemingly random arrangement of the holes on a parking card.”
Everyone who has driven a large garage knows the fears of a gate that do not open when it belongs or does not work the card machine. Within the large but controlled space of the Kunsthalle Arbon, Increase The question: how do people get away here? Discover more about that of the collective website.
