NEW COLLECTION ACQUISITION FOR UDO BÄR SUBSIDIARY, GERMANY
The RAJA Collection – Contemporary Art has been enriched with a new artwork on the occasion of the inauguration of the new head office of warehouse equipment and office supplies distributor UDO BÄR in Duisburg, Germany.
This new sculpture by Berlin-based artist Bettina Pousttchi is titled Udo, in reference to the subsidiary in which the work is now displayed and from which the artist purchased the elements that make up the work. Made of mirror-like polished street bollards, it bears witness to the artist’s interest in urban furniture in her sculptural practice. As objects that are both discreet and omnipresent in our collective daily lives, street bollards usually dictate the direction and organisation of our bodies and our movements in public space. Brought together, modified by the force of a metal press, these cold-looking posts suddenly take on anthropomorphic qualities. Are they slumped over each other, arguing, or in full embrace? They evoke floating figures, or plants bent by the wind, paradoxically fragile despite the material’s robustness.
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📷 : © Courtesy of the artist and of Buchmann Galerie, Berlin / photo : Jenz Ziehe
