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Famed

Founded in 2003. Sebastian M. Kretzschmar, 1978, Leipzig, DE Kilian Schellbach, 1971, Leipzig, DE; Jan Thomaneck, 1974, Rostock, DE They live in Leipzig, Berlin and Rostock, DE

Untitled (Spatial Reconfiguration), 2008 Mixed media installation, dimensions variable

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The artist collective Famed produces site-specific interventions that can be seen as anti-architectural hybrids of installation, sculpture, performance, objects and video, all arranged in a quasi-theatrical setting. They investigate the construction and meaning of institutional spaces. Their work ironically penetrates the mechanisms of art institutions, ranging from self-reflective discourses on the status of the artist, the critique of pervasiveness of old-fashioned, white-cube paradigms, the perception and reception of an artwork and questioning the regime of exchange within the art-market. Famed deconstructs the usual vocabulary of institutional art from within, mocking the heroic qualities of art production, often focusing – in an absurd way reminiscent of Beckett – on moments of dysfunction, impotence and failure. Their Spatial Reconfiguration , conceived for the Manifattura Tabacchi, is a site-specific analysis of its transformation from an industrial building to a service-based facility. The artists manipulate the regular spatial logic, referring to an imaginary “in-between,” portraying an “as-well-as” situation, based upon the grammar of how spaces might relate to each other. As such, Famed’s work is concerned with the issue of how a particular architectural configuration can stimulate new possibilities and discourses, especially in view of how it can potentially display a tendency towards its own neutralization.


Location

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ADAM BUDAK: "PRINCIPLE HOPE"

EX PETERLINI, VIA SAVIOLI 20 – MANIFATTURA TABACCHI, P.ZZA MANIFATTURA 1 -STAZIONE FERROVIARIA, PIAZZALE ORSI, I-38068 ROVERETO, ITALY

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