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... we know the ark from the old testament as a place of refuge before the sense flood for humans and animals. it is a thick ship or rather a swimming box, which represents thus even again a space, but, a space in motion. christian blau decides in the representation of his ark however for the form of an old riverboat, which offers a large feed surface with slim, dynamic bug and broad tail, on which a lead container stores. blaus emphasis with the motive of an ark is appropriate thus on the movement, for the journey, on that roams across the space. also the charge is one for the journey: the container is an almost everlasting container and the messageinabottle already stored externally. somewhere thrown into the space, none knows, where or when it will arrive. by the coating lead, with its preserving abilities, it is prepared with their information for a long journey.
lead, which ranks among the oldest metals of mankind history, was assigned to the planet Saturn in the cosmologies and alchimistbooks in the middle ages. this pale-lighting 'change asterisk' needs 29.5 years, in order to orbit the sun and merges with the lead into a symbol for tardiness, age, stability and turbidness. Also hope for the discovery of unknown possibilities swings nevertheless in the back meditation on the tardiness, because otherwise we did not need to begin a journey.
(from the tractor of the exhibition, Dr. Iris Simone Engelke,Agentur für Bildende Kunst, Hamburg (translation: www.babelfish.com)
Art Projekt Gänsemarktpassage, 'Die Bleiarche', 30. march -10. may 1996
interior veiling of the shop windows with 500 meters black molltoncloth.
3 stands with aquariums, water, snowsand and swimming messages in a bottle (multiple).
the construction of the lead ark made of manila pipe.
leadcoated styropor body.
due to strong protests of the shopkeepers the interior veiling could only remain 3 days unchanged.
implementation of the lead ark: Bellealliance, Plastische Gestaltung, Hamburg. see also www.bellealliance.de
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