ÅDLANDSVIK / MÜLLER / PEPPER / WOLL
Stein mit Vollausstattung II
Title: Stein mit Vollausstattung
Year: 2014
Material: 3-color screen print on paper
Dimensions: 30 x 40 cm
Edition: 32, signed and numbered
Price: 100 €
The artist duos Lutz-Rainer Müller (Germany) and Stian Ådlandsvik (Norway) as well as Mark Pepper (Germany) and Thomas Woll (Germany) have been collaborating on projects for many years.
One of Müller/Ådlandsvik's outstanding projects is “You only tell me You love me when you're drunk,” a temporary sculpture in public space and the Hordaland Art Centre Bergen/Norway in 2010. A single-family house built in 1956 was transformed, which had been purchased by a group of investors and was about to be demolished to make way for modern apartments. Instead of the original house, the two artists sent a scale model on a “final” journey around the world. Poorly packaged, the model suffered extensive damage on its journey via Beijing, Sydney, New York, and Paris to Bergen, which was then transferred to the original house.
Pepper/Woll have been working together since 2006. In 2011, in the foyer of the Museum Folkwang in Essen, they examined existing socially coded urban structures. In a process of appropriation, reinterpretation, and transformation, the original architectural situation was redesigned and reinterpreted in order to examine underlying expectations and conventions and to break down social structures and ideological conventions.
The work “Stein mit Vollausstattung” (Stone with Full Equipment), which the four artists developed as part of their 2012 exhibition, is a participatory sculpture for Dortmund's city center. It consists of a large artificial rock and a mast with a wind turbine and solar panels. The electricity generated is made available to passers-by free of charge. The energy is also used to power a router that provides open Wi-Fi. In reference to the term “full equipment,” which is familiar from the automotive industry, the sculpture has been equipped with gadgets.