Open other end
2010



Galerie Mark Müller Zürich
Guestroom

Open other end
Installation mixed media
2 parts
each 30 x 115 x 220 cm
October 29 - December 18 2010

"Somewhere in a side street in Downtown Cairo, painted in the same unspeakable color, with the same frame and the relief-like surface ornamentation - the door actually exists.
With great attention to detail the artists made two replicas of the door, but the objects refer less to their original functionality than they aim at creating a primary image of symbolic character.
An image of a bizarre shape and color, mutating into a pair of identical copies, setting the basis for an ornamental pattern set. The all-together ensemble with the three already existing "doors" of the Guestroom is forming a scenario of very surreal character.
The title "Open other end" implies ( of course in vain ) that there is a solution in dealing with the doors, and suggests an outer and an inner space, which is excluded as well, in terms of the architectural disposition. The "other" implies a sequence to the duality of the doors that is instantly negelected by the fact that the doors, in their infinite uniqueness, already are a couple.
In the heart of Karin Wälchli and Guido Reichlin's work is a deep fascination for the unusual manifestations of our visual environment, for those formal irregularities that we usually do not pay attention to. Chalet5 however pleads for the value-free appreciation of all shapes, patterns and aesthetics of familiar as well as of different cultures, regardless of what context they come from and for what purpose they were created.
By collecting those remarkable phenomena, and by sampling or copy/pasting such artifacts into the fresh context of Art Spaces they raise our awareness for the "other" forms and images of this world."

Yasmin Afshar, Mark Müller Gallery Zurich

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