🗓️February 26 – March 27, 2010
Opening hours : wed – fr. 14 – 19, sat 12 – 16
Reception: February 26 (19:00 – 22:00)
📍 28, Kreuzbergstrasse Berlin 10965 Germany
📧 concentart@gmx.net
Artists: Georgi Begun, Cyland, Alexandra Dementieva, Anna Frants, Raphaele Shirley, Peter Vogel, Florian Japp, Marte Kiessling, Jorgen Erkius
Curated by: Leah Stuhltrager
I Play I – an international project of the gallery Dam, Stuhltrager (New York). The ways artists express themselves creatively is traced back to their childhood. From constructing cities with blocks to banging on pots to making tree forts to devising strategies to win games – an artist begins a life of creating with curiosity, wonder and unencumbered imagination which is developed through “PLAY”. One can only hope these traits are not abandoned with youth and instead mature into a distinct artistic voice.
In <I PLAY I> at ConcentArt, installations embody how sophisticated curiosity, wonder and unencumbered imagination can in essence, become ageless. A futuristic, miniature city is daintily ordered and delicately planned to cast a societal shadow. Sculptures whimsically move and generate sounds in reaction to someone walking nearby to grab attention. Peeking one’s head inside a suspended boat divulges the view from the hideaway’s perspective. Moving cans of “fodder” creates a panorama of an environment nearing extinction… <I PLAY I> reminds us we are never too old to remember what we’ve learned and to dream bigger than that.