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The Carpet Magazine 17 5 remove their shoes This is interaction ap preciated by Rudolf Stingel Only through the performance by the visitors does the work become a live performance By moving across the carpet and leaving traces behind they keep on redefining the installation Artwork and flooring in one the carpet stretches across the entire floor of the main hall The template was an antique hand made oriental carpet in the possession of the artist who lives in New York For the ex hibition he transferred the colours into black and white shades and had the pattern made by Halbmond In doing so the original was enlarged in such a way that visitors can play with the visual appearance if you look at the floor beneath your feet you only perceive fuzzy light and dark patches Only when you let your eye wander and the distance is in creased do the elements combine to form a clear continual oriental design The carpet artwork is omnipresent Apart from the chandeliers the exhibition space only houses this one exhibit Therefore art and free space are able to be experienced Rudolf Stingel LIVE changes the atmos phere of cool and distanced objectivity which so often prevails in museums The normally reverberating footsteps are cushioned whis pered voices are raised to normal conversa tions and still they do not disturb as the carpet has changed the acoustics Its soft material ensures cosiness and leads visi tors to really let themselves go and to act in a private manner in a public environment Everywhere people are sitting and lying on the floorcovering they read books and even Carpet Magazine How do visitors react to the gallery Kittelmann Very positively Through the installation by Rudolf Stingel the visitors get a very different sense of space Suddenly they have the need to sit on the floor and to appreciate this special place in a completely new way Normally the upper hall of the New National Gallery seems to have a rather cool atmosphere Now the frugality and formal reduction of the architecture meets the strong graphic pattern and the sensual opu lence of the carpet This can be unsettling at Short interview with Udo Kittelmann Director of the New National Gallery first With this live installation the modern temple loses its abstract strength and approaches something close to a sanctu ary characterised by the oriental The lavish crystal chandeliers hang overhead They remind one of pompous appearances and in doing so illustrate the inescapable European perspectives After all Persian and Oriental carpets have an established place in Euro pean cultural history Carpet Magazine What will happen to the work after the exhibition Besides creating space and infinity the paintings exhibited in the basement also show traces of history When reproducing the nature photographs Rudolf Stingel included the scratches and dust on the originals to his paintings as well as the finger print of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner which was on the negative of the Stafelalp In combination with the reserved ambience of the straight lined glass building the carpet allows fascinating contrasts to arise Without a sofa wardrobe or chair it changes the clear modern temple into a cosy environment in which visitors behave almost as if they were at home Photographs David von Becker Verein der Freunde der Nationalgalerie Project Location Rudolf Stingel LIVE exhibition New National Gallery Berlin Germany Target group art lovers from around the world Carpet Occasion exhibition in the New National Gallery Completion February 2010 Design Rudolf Stingel Carpet installation Karsten Preising Preising Fussböden GmbH Co KG Neumark Quantity 2 500 m Quality AP 1400 Kittelmann A 10 piece artist edition will be produced from the flooring Each piece will have a size of 3x4 m Carpet Magazine How did you become aware of Halbmond Kittelmann The members of the board of trustees maintain contacts with industry Our collaboration arose from the knowledge of Halbmond s high quality work


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