Nachdem ich heute morgen über eine kostspielige Heim-Brauerei gestolpert bin, hier das zweite Bierfundstück des Tages. Bis zum 22. Mai 2011 ist im KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin diese Pyramide aus 72.000 Flaschen Efes Bier zu sehen.
Das Werk stammt aus dem Kopf von Cyprien Gaillard und behandelt das Thema Erhalt und Zerstörung von Architektur:
In his work, Cyprien Gaillard repeatedly explores the absurd aspects of dystopic architectures and their remaining ruins through such strategies as dilapidation, destruction, demolition, preservation, conservation and reconstruction of architecture. In doing so he always departs from the process itself. For his exhibition at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin Cyprien Gaillard has created a new, large-scale piece, which – whilst departing from a prototype of the monument – completes itself in the process. Similarly to the relocation of the Pergamon Altar, 72,000 bottles of beer of the brand »Efes« have been transported from Turkey to Germany. The cardboard boxes filled with bottles form the even steps of the pyramid. By using the monument – by climbing the sculpture and drinking the beer – its destruction is already initiated. The barbaric removal of single architectural elements that have been transported from their original location to Berlin, embodies both the concept of displacement and a tourist colonialism. Despite the geographic origin of alcohol often being of great importance to the consumer, the provenience seems to become more and more unimportant, as its consumption increases. Along the lines of the gradual destruction of the sculpture the alcohol gradually dispels and destroys both body and mind. The physical hangover is also an architectural one, from which one has to recover.
via Visual News
