Prospecting Ocean – Armin Linke
Curated by Stefanie Hessler
Commission: TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Academy
For the Exhibition Prospecting Ocean by Armin Linke, the ISMAR - TBA21 ACADEMY building will be transformed into a perceptive machine to create a new viewpoint for the artworks installed. Its use as an artistic space exalts its urban properties over its architecture, the connecting elements rather than the physical features. The physical details of the building are neither exalted nor neutralised, but set into a relationship that introduces a new sense of spatiality. Vertical and horizontal elements circulate around the show, connected so as to create continuous movement throughout all parts of the building. Inside and outside in a sort of sequence, activating the garden and the buildings constellation. Entering the garden a bridge functions as display and signal for the first video room. The path continuity is then defined by a passerella which leads into the main building, follows ideally the show going back to the first room through the garden.This course becomes the key to the exhibition, a spatial interaction which places the physical movement of the visitor at the center of perception, highlighting the relationship with the artistic interventions
