XXII Andreas Koch
25.10. – 02.11.02

Andres Koch's artistic subject is to explore urban conditions and their delineations. He aims to overcome the definitions and limitations of photography and sculpture. As he is working with models and their realities, he also deals with fiction and reproduction as most relative categories.
For his installation in CAPRI, prototypes of 1960s and 70s architecture in Berlin were posing for his camera. Their rather mediocre postwar facades make them appear familiar at once, no matter whether one recognizes the particular buildings or not. Andreas Koch transformed these photos' scales and thus generated 'documentary' images of a distorted and highly artificial character, These pictures were carefully adjusted then to fit on CAPRI's peculiar pedestals, in order to finally serve as a totally side-specific type of wall paper covering the space's walls and shelves.
One might expect to feel like a giant moving through a toy town — Yet on the contrary, the shrunken buildings have preserved their monumental aura; their three-dimensional presence gives them an absurd yet dismissive reality. (BC)