Functional Intentions Collection
MINKEN & PALME
Ralf Grossek: Sammlung Funktionale Absichten - sperren sichern
2009 © Ralf Grossek
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Ralf Grossek is concerned with problems and their solution. Since 2006 the artist has been working on his Sammlung Funktionale Absichten [Functional Intentions Collection], created as an archive and constituting a photographic stocktaking of our endeavour to order and organise a living space of our own. In this context Grossek has created categories of his own like ordering directing, supporting holding or securing closing in which he sums up the meaning of a picture in terms of the function of that which it shows. [
Grosseks pictures are empty of people, avoid superfluous information and release things out of their actual significant context. By reducing the image to a tight picture detail, he allows its basic functionality to appear as a closed system. This results in effects on the viewer that are frequently strange and sometimes peculiar. Ralf Grosseks Functional Intentions Collection is being shown in its entirety for the first time under the auspices of the Month of Photography.
Theme
Visiting & co-opted institutions
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Artist(s)
Ralf Grossek
Duration of the exhibition
22.10. - 30.11.2010
Vernissage
21.10.2010, 19 h
Opening times
Mi-Do 13-18 h
Location
MINKEN & PALME
Köpenicker Straße 159
10997 Berlin
T 0049 30 21973462
Public transport connections
U1 Görlitzer Bahnhof
S3, 5, 7, 75 Ostbahnhof
Bus 140
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