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Andreas Siekmann
Die Exklusive auf dem Plattenspieler, 2004

Jens Ziehe, 2004 | Courtesy of Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin
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Andreas Siekmann

Model on a record player, wood, plastic, paper
39 x 35.2 x 44.6 cm
Donated to Fundación Museo Reina Sofía by TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary


In his drawings and sculptures Andreas Siekmann investigates current structures of power and conceptualizes alternative models. In 2002, he installed on the Place Royal in Brussels a merry-go-round that rotated around the equestrian statue of Gottfried von Bouillon. Large red letters on the roof announced the existence of a fourth power, the "exclusive," supplementing the three familiar powers of the legislative, the judiciary and the executive. The model of the merry-go-round, titled Die Exklusive auf dem Plattenspieler, revolves around itself on the turntable of a record player populated with figures from powerless zones subservient to a fourth power, the exclusive, constituted by power and money.


*1961 in Hamm, Germany | Living and working in Berlin, Germany
 
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