Martin Pfeifle – onda 2018
Lutfridstrasse, 53121 Bonn
art and living #10
After the sculptural outdoor work Rado (2011) Martin Pfeifle has with him in 2019 onda realized a second outdoor sculpture in the Lutfridstrasse settlement. For onda (Italian: the wave) vPfeifle transforms a classic park bench made of white wooden slats into an oversized, wavy and expansive sculpture that invites you to sit, climb or simply look at it. meanwhile is onda an integral part of the life of the residents: climbing frames for children, benches for mothers or a meeting place for teenagers in the summer.
Martin Pfeifle works as an archaeologist of the "now": He examines places for their social and cultural conditions, their history and spatial definitions, in order to then develop his installations, sculptures or (walk-in) outdoor works, which always respond very specifically to the respective spatial situation. Often, as with onda, Everyday objects are transformed or spatial sculptures are conceived from everyday building materials and installed on site.
Pfeifle manages to do this with astonishing ease and enthusiasm, perhaps this is the secret why his art in construction projects such as rado or onda be so well received. Also at onda, the pleasurable, varied dissection and recomposition the classic park bench par excellence, he succeeds with a wink.
Text: Beate Eckstein
Martin Pfeifle (born 1975 in Stuttgart) lives and works in Düsseldorf. He completed his studies at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf with Prof. Tony Cragg and Prof. Hubert Kiecol. The artist has received numerous awards and prizes, including a grant from the Villa Romana in Florence in 2010.
Photographer: Mareike Tocha, Cologne
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