Metro-Net

Martin Kippenberger, Transportable subway entrance , Graubünden , Madulain, Switzerland, 2007

Entrance to the Metro-Net station in the Leipzig Exhibition Center.

Metro-Net. Subway around the world is a work of art by Martin Kippenberger .

The aim is a global fictitious train U - Power to build. For this purpose, Kippenberger built entrances and ventilation shafts for subway stations at various locations , which consist of functionless dummies . In addition to the deceptively real look, the fiction was sometimes reinforced by played driving noises and air currents generated by fans . The project continued even after his death.

history

Entrance gate with Sun-Breast-Hammer logo of the Lord Jim Lodge

St. Georgen underground ventilation system in the Black Forest

The signet of the Lord Jim Lodge

As the first station of Kippenberger's Metro-Net, a concrete staircase was built in 1993 on the Greek Cycladic island of Syros . The lower entrance, however, was blocked by a wrought-iron door bearing the signet of Lord Jim Lodge . A subway exit made of wood was added in August 1995 in Dawson and another exit in 1997 on the grounds of the Leipziger Messe .

Several planned stations were set up posthumously, for example during the Documenta X in Kassel in 1997 and the Skulptur.Projekte in Münster . A transportable ventilation shaft (1997) is in the Grässlin Collection and was exhibited in St. Georgen and Karlsruhe , for example, and a transportable underground entrance (1997) was on display in the Cologne Sculpture Park from 1997 to 1999 .

In 2003, a further ventilation shaft was installed in the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale , which - six years after the artist's death - was sometimes discussed as not being true to the original . As early as 2001, an installation Transportable Underground Entrance, which was completed in 1997 while Kippenberger was still alive, was built in the village of Madulain in Switzerland . The logo of the Lord Jim Lodge, Sun Breast Hammer , can be seen on the gate .

See also

• Fake in the art context

Web links

• http://www.newmediastudies.com/art/mk.htm (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Information on Martin Kippenberger's installation on the website of the Skulptur.Projekte Münster 1997 (accessed on August 14, 2009)
2. ↑ "That should be Kippenberger?", In: art-magazin 9/2003 ( Memento from October 17th, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Holger Liebs: " All good things come from below ", in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , September 13, 2003
4. ↑ Press text ( Memento of the original from March 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. to set up the installation in Madulain. Retrieved April 7, 2011