Daniel Chluba's new character is out! It was born yesterday on the Instagram Live of Bark Berlin Gallery and is called "Finocchio". Finocchio sounds and also looks a bit like Pinocchio but if you speak Italian you would immediately think of fennel. As it is with every birth, it is a disturbing event that leaves one utterly speechless. So I'm not gonna say much but I can quote from an interview with the artist by the artist in which he explains a bit about the conceptualisation of his work:
Mein Herangehensweise ist scheinbar konzeptuell. Der rote Faden scheint mir das Spielen mit Mash-Ups zu sein. Nichtkunst wird Kunst, Professionalisierung wird Dilettantismus, Original wird Fälschung, Subkultur wird Kultur, Schein wird Sein, Alles wird Nichts. (My approach is only seemingly conceptual. The red thread in my work is rather a play with mash-ups. Non-art becomes art, professionalisation turns into dilettantism, original into forgery, subculture into culture, pretense into truthfulness, everything into nothing.)
The Finocchio mask is available for purchase and you can witness the birth here. I have to warn for the nakedness, as it is a birth obviously. But nakedness is also a kind of trademark of Daniel Chluba's performances. When he questioned himself about this tendency to be naked, he retorted: "Was ist das für eine sexistische Frage! Wenn eine Frau bei einer Performance nackt ist, fragt ja auch keiner, warum sie nackt ist." (What a sexist question! If a woman is naked in a performance, no one asks why she is naked.)