Pablo Wendel
Pablo Wendel (* 1980 in Tieringen ) is a German artist specializing in performance art , installation art and video art . He lives and works in Stuttgart and London.
life and work
From 1999 to 2002, Pablo Wendel studied sculpture at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart with Werner Pokorny and Christian Jankowski, among others .
His works often deal with precarious borderline situations , art-historical references and ironic breaks that sometimes involve the audience directly. As part of the “Dinkelaka” project, Wendel realized the “Reflex Milk Flow” installation . A pipe system was laid over five floors through which milk was sucked in with the sounds of toddlers breathing and slurping. In 2004, Wendel exhibited the installation “Telekonnektofonie” in the Oberwelt gallery in Stuttgart . Using a computer, two telephone numbers around the world were dialed in parallel using a random generator and the unsuspecting conversation partners were automatically connected to one another. International random connections arose with unpredictable human and, above all, technical premises , which enabled culturally interesting juxtapositions and allowed the visitor to participate voyeuristically .
His video work "Latimeria" was created in 2004 in Norway . The artist attached a fish hook to a helium-filled weather balloon. To prevent the balloon from flying away, Wendel attached it to an anchor with a so-called robber knot. When a fish took a bite, the knot loosened and the balloon rose 32,000 meters. His sculpture “Stone” was also created in Norway in 2004, for which he worked on a 4.5 ton block, referring to an international stone carving symposium in Norway, and tried to find the content of the actual core form, which had previously been talked about so much at the symposium .
In Wendel's acoustic installation "Auftropfen", the dripping of water was recorded and the sound played four floors higher. As soon as a drop reached the top, it was played on a second tape recorder and could be heard acoustically from a loudspeaker with the same regularity.
In 2005, in collaboration with Birgit Hower and Sonja Rentsch, Wendel realized his installation “2. Basement “, in which he flooded a cellar hall halfway with water. The reflection of the water gave the visitor, who was standing in a covered walkway, the impression of an infinitely deep and wide space.
For his installation “Cactacea Embraco”, created between 2005 and 2006, Wendel mounted a cactus on a cooling unit and connected it in such a way that it was constantly cooled and frozen by a direct connection. Within a year, the freezing humidity caused a white crystalline layer of ice to form on the cactus.
His transportable installation “Bianda” from 2006 consists of a traditional Chinese support structure (Bianda yoke), a bamboo tube cut in half with baskets hanging down at both ends. Traditionally, this is used to transport food and other everyday items. Wendel replaced one of the baskets with a loudspeaker and equipped the second basket with technology such as recording devices, amplifiers, batteries, microphones and control elements. The sound recordings made at random locations were carried to other locations, where he made new recordings and played back the previous recordings at the same time. In this way, superimposed sound collages were created during playback, which mingled with everyday life.
Wendel is also known for spontaneous art actions. While in China , he publicly jumped into a sewer in the middle of the Chinese city of Hangzhou . As a result, he was banned from using public transport, whereupon he had to walk four to five hours home. With the “First Mud” campaign, he wanted to address his integration problems, otherness and the constant status classification based on skin color and clothing.
Wendel achieved international fame through his performance as a warrior in the closely guarded terracotta army in the Chinese Xi'an in 2006. Wendel copied one of the soldiers of the historic terracotta army with a costume he made himself. For the time being, he stood unnoticed as a simple infantry soldier on a pedestal he had brought with him in the back row of the army in the museum.
For the installation "Schmarotzer" in 2008, Wendel tapped the electricity from neon signs in Stuttgart's Marienstraße with solar cells and operated a light bulb in his exhibition room.
In his latest installation, “Cardiac Cathedral”, Wendel artificially beats a (pig) heart without a body. The pulsating contractions do not send blood through the veins, so they are purely mechanical. Wendel is commenting on the idea of eternal life.
Exhibitions (selection)
- 2006: Tecknick in the Städtische Galerie im Kornhaus, Kirchheim unter Teck .
- 2007: Frischzelle_07: Pablo Wendel in the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart .
- 2009: Cardiac Cathedral in the Nassauischer Kunstverein , Wiesbaden. (EA)
- 2009: 3rd Guangzhou Triennial
Awards
- 2016: Albert Dulk Prize Untertürkheim
Web links
- Information on Wendel's individual works (PDF file; 1.17 MB)
- Pablo Wendel on kunstaspekte.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Focus (accessed on May 13, 2009)
- ↑ Stuttgarter Nachrichten ( Memento from December 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ List of artists 2006 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Frischzelle_07: Pablo Wendel ( Memento of the original from December 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from June 16 to July 29, 2007 at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart. Catalog published by the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart 2007.
- ↑ Pablo Wendel / Cardiac Cathedral ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2009 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. from May 10 to June 21, 2009 at the Nassauischer Kunstverein, curated by Elke Gruhn and Katharina Klara Jung.
- ^ Albert Dulk Prize, Untertürkheim. Retrieved May 24, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wendel, Pablo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German artist in performance art |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1980 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tieringen |