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With h₁ésh₂r̥, Kunstverein Siegen presents an exhibition by the Berlin-based artist duo Peles Duo, complemented by a sculptural intervention and an open-air public programme.
The artist duo Peles Duo (formerly Peles Empire), consisting of Barbara Wolff and Katharina Stöver, takes both its material and its name from the Romanian castle of Peleș, built in 1883. The interior of the castle is characterised by a non-hierarchical juxtaposition of copied furniture and spatial designs from different stylistic periods. The artists draw from this historicist interior, making postmodern techniques of reproduction, sampling and quotation the basis of their artistic practice. They merge different times and spaces with different media, deliberately blurring the boundaries between original and copy, historical and contemporary, refined and mundane, and between the two- and three-dimensional. This process of abstraction constantly challenges the notion of the...More
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With h₁ésh₂r̥, Kunstverein Siegen presents an exhibition by the Berlin-based artist duo Peles Duo, complemented by a sculptural intervention and an open-air public programme.
The artist duo Peles Duo (formerly Peles Empire), consisting of Barbara Wolff and Katharina Stöver, takes both its material and its name from the Romanian castle of Peleș, built in 1883. The interior of the castle is characterised by a non-hierarchical juxtaposition of copied furniture and spatial designs from different stylistic periods. The artists draw from this historicist interior, making postmodern techniques of reproduction, sampling and quotation the basis of their artistic practice. They merge different times and spaces with different media, deliberately blurring the boundaries between original and copy, historical and contemporary, refined and mundane, and between the two- and three-dimensional. This process of abstraction constantly challenges the notion of the...More
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