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Michael SAILSTORFER

Tränenpresse, 2018

Coal, hydraulic pump

Tear press | Tear press : 186 x 90 x 85 cm | 73 1/4 x 35 7/16 x 33 7/16 inch
Hydraulic pump | Hydraulic pump : 60 x 52 x 52 cm | 23 5/8 x 20 1/2 x 20 1/2 inch

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Courtesy Ferdinand Ullrich, Recklinghausen

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photograph : Ferdinand Ullrich, Recklinghausen

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The installation piece “TEAR PRESS” is actually a hydraulic machine. Hydraulics, originally the study of liquid flow behaviour, are employed here to press teardrop-shaped coal briquettes destined for a “TTV” furnace in the form of a television set with a bronze chimney. The final work is no less complex than the idea behind it, which parallels the lost and obsolete nature of emotional experience in a rationalized and systematic world with that of a bleak industrial process of solidification.

 

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