tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2407560552805658571.post2523100878875804039..comments2024-03-18T15:30:42.293+00:00Comments on CENTRE FOR THE AESTHETIC REVOLUTION: STEFAN BENCHOAM'S 'PUBLIC FOUNTAIN/PUBLIC TOILET' AT WHITE CUBICLE TOILET GALLERYPablo Leon de la Barrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06282533145565413087noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2407560552805658571.post-65582809855249898092011-07-20T17:46:45.875+01:002011-07-20T17:46:45.875+01:00Un texto que salio post show en el campo ingles!! ...Un texto que salio post show en el campo ingles!! enjoy!! xxx<br />Stefan Benchoam Public Pissoire improvised and adapted with at hand material from the building and plumbing shops of near by<br />to be set up at the exterior of the pub George and Dragon, the site for the White Cubicle Gallery for his first solo show in London, had the elements of minimalist interventions that generate a whole disturbance of the space, and proposes improvised reactions to it.<br />Starting on one of the facades , the pissoire's pipes cross and side track one face of the building to turn a corner an enter the public space of the Public House, crossing it and dividing it on two zones, challenging movement and behavior from the costumers to the alien tube that some how obstructed their learned route to the bar, the toilets and way in or out doors.<br />Finally , the whole long and adventurous trajectory of the modest pipes ends on a fountain effect, where from the open hole of the tube end's, the urine, that had been previously poured by the pisser, on the outdoors ready made public facility to be used as pissoire on a kind of huge brick podium /plinth and across the pub and between the costumers/public, arrives to the toilet pristine white seat and can get its full circle transit and again be re-distributed on the underground huge pipes that cross the metropolis filled with our very basic creations.<br />To associate this action to a sort of metaphorical link of meaning to the politics of the distribution ,net-workings and its possible modifications on the art commodity circulation and value , trough out some points of fracture, questioning and detour by surprise unexpected turns, is sort of unavoidable and relevant at a times when all issues related have been called to revision.<br />On the realm of Public Interventions, we have learned to understand , there is a hidden , subterranean ,pipeline like transit of re-interpretation and re-evaluation between relations of labor /work/art worker/art work and has on the aesthetics of Stefan Benchoam's<br />very simple and basic construction (of an usually covered and not visible structure) revealed to the outside world, of and urinal doubled as fountain and its adventurous trajectory, a fresh, humorous and playful revitalizing take.Esther Planas Balduzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02083812639965630201noreply@blogger.com