Neugerriemschneider meant well, I guess. Let's put the ready-made industrial machines by both Mike Nelson and Simon Starling together, combined with photographs of workers during their break by Sharon Lockhart. It has a common topic so it looks like an exhibition. And I'm sure Nelson's industrial machines must have looked impressive in the Tate Britain. And Starling's early printing machines readymades must have come about out of a sincere interest and research. Same for Sharon Lockhart's photos of workers during a break. But put together it looked like a showroom for the rich using worker's culture and it had a perverse touch to it of nostalgia for the industrial age. "It's a showroom", so my friend, the artist A. saying the naked truth. And artist P. added: "The "Butterpause" of the workers might have been better performed than photographed." Also true.
Second stop is at Klemm's. A collaboration by Sven Johne and Falk Haberkorn. It's been three days ago and I have no recollection about it anymore. Third stop is next-door at Soy Capitan Gallery: a collaboration between Lisa Herfeldt and Kristin Loschert. A friend warns me not to be critical about it because he thinks it's beautiful. Well, if anything, it was trying to be too beautiful. Its beauty had no rupture, which made it empty. The harmony was deadening - it brought up a sweet taste in my mouth. My suggestion would be to add a third person to mess things up.
