I really like visiting art exhibitions, but I often ask myself what is it that makes me examine and like one piece of art and just glance over another? For me, it gets even more complex when it comes to installations. How can artists catch someone’s interest and tell their concept through their work?
What I like about Christian’s Man-Machine Cycle is the interest he generates with his combination of familiar, everyday objects and ambiguous topics or titles: Pay’n’Pray, Frischfleisch (fresh meat), Orakel (fortune teller). The interactive aspect of the installations catches you as a user in a situation where you become aware of the relationship between man and machine, and makes you conscious of your own expectations, habits and prejudices.
Pay’n’Pray can be seen at Regionale 11 – Time and Motion Study from 27 November to 2 January 2011 at the Kunstverein Freiburg im Breisgau (www.kunstvereinfreiburg.de)