Exhibitions in Galerie Baer

London Art Fair

HANNES BROECKER

HANNES BROECKER

Backyard in the street – lets swing an episode 2010 @ London Art Fair

Hannes Broecker’s chief interest lies in the language of symbols and the aesthetics of public space. In his work prevailing classification systems and urban structures are translated and abstracted. He takes graffiti and slogans, colour codes from billboards and construction hoarding, reflective and crumbling façades that tell of power and powerlessness, and transforms them into painted images.In a world chock-full of conventional presentations, his sculptures and installations seem to be even more of a balancing act between aggression and seduction than do his pictures: They obstruct entryways and defy insight, yet they entice the observer with the vivid force of strong colors as well as with unusual surfaces and materials.

The work »Backyard in the street – lets swing an episode 2010« is describing an urban space which connects to the structures of city backyards. It is often times in backyards where socially left out groups find their niches and leave their traces.
The installation consists of various complex pieces which were put together for the London Art Fair. Within their very own materiality, their aim of being fragments and their citation oft often extreme rap songs the window pictures and gates associate the real life at the urban places just mentioned. Those works are indicating the putting up of barricades of unknown and undefined spaces, which are unreal in the given situation.

In the centre of the installation a t-formed tree similar to a gibbet sticks out of a box which could also be used as seating furniture with shoes hanging from it which symbolise assaults by youngsters towards weaker members of society.

The work is defined by entrance-like elements of sculpture and fences. The access to the exhibition boot (“backyard”) functions via an artist-typical expressive gesture of colour.