Markus Degerman’s works are experiments with architecture and elements of design. His interventions reprocess public, urban or institutional space. To create the installation \u201cNo matter how hard you work…\u201d, Degerman reconstructed architectonic elements from various settings and set them within the exhibition space as sculptural objects: an accessible, u-shaped metal grid structure like the ones used for wheelchair ramps encircles the pillars in the centre of the room; a sculpture in the form of a round-arch doorway, made of MDF, laminated chipboard and roughcast, picks out a popular design element of the past, now associated primarily with the ‘grotto’ style of some Italian restaurants. Separated from this context, it again seems like a cool design object. Further components of the exhibition are window elements made of wood like those representative of stylish living in old buildings: in the meantime, plastic mock-ups to stick onto the windows of new buildings are available and therefore also make them poor taste for some people.<\/p>\n
Markus Degerman uses such examples of style to point out that architecture and design, as aesthetic discourse, always interrelate with current political and social discourse, and experience the same permanent change for that reason. \u201cNo matter how hard you work…\u201d intends to sound out the potential for differing approaches to concepts like \u2018quality\u2019 or \u2018value\u2019 within the framework of specific aesthetic and political contexts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","categories":[],"class_list":["post-9160","kb_exhibition","type-kb_exhibition","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"article_image":9167,"article_image_bu_de":"","article_image_bu_en":"","datum_suche":"2013-07-09 10:06:19"},"yoast_head":"\n