Lot 644 D

The present work can be assigned to the ''Kinder filmen'' ('children filming') installations exhibited in Galerie Daniel Buchholz in 2005 where works with cinematographic sources were exhibited. In this installation Genzken was reacting to violance and its media conveyance, represented by the artist in the relationship to consumerism and mass culture. The gallery space is set up as a film set, overwhelmingly with a variety of objects from everyday life which are arranged in different ways with different plastics materials to make a whole. In this version the Oscar, the most prestigious object of the media world, is decorated as a tin can with barbed wire and gypcrete and comes across as a highly ambivalent object.
''That Genzken's objects oppose a simple reception is due to their materiality, but also in the way they are worked by the artist. The found consumer and merchandising products as well as the various plastic sheets are deployed by Genzken as industrially fabricated sculptures.'' (Barbara Engelbach, Kinder Filmen, Die Bildhauerin und der Kinematografische Raum, in: Isa Genzken, Sesam, öffne dich!, Cologne 2009, p. 188)