Kindergarten | GREGOR SCHNEIDER in Mexico
The exhibition includes Gregor Schneider’s new piece Kindergarten (playground): a playing field produced for México, that will remains in the city after the show. The work proposes a non-functional area of play, which rules are unknown and where we can explore the public space and its signification.
Houses of the dying villages at the Garzweiler brown coal mining site © Gregor Schneider / VG Bild-Kunst Bonn
Kindergarten
Gregor Schneider
11.02.2017 – 23.07.2017
Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Centro Cultural Universitario, UNAM
Ciudad de México, Mexico
PR Info _ In 1985, Gregor Schneider began to build whole rooms inside the existing rooms of his house in Rheydt (Germany), replicating its interior spaces. Since then, Schneider remakes, transforms and relocates walls of these everyday places within the museum space, defying architectural logic and questioning the limits of space as well as the private and public tension.
By means of memory and recollections activated by the artist, these spaces twist the idea of placidity and, moving beyond the house as a space of protection and seclusion, present themselves as disquieting precincts that disconcert, discomfort and suffcate.
The exhibition includes also his new piece Playground: a playing field produced for México, that will remains in the city after the show. The work proposes a non-functional area of play, which rules are unknown and where we can explore the public space and its signification.
Info + illus. courtesy Gregor Schneider
