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 Kunstraum Engländerbau, Vaduz, Liechtenstein

 

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A G I L I T Y

Einzelausstellung im Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin in Kooperation mit IG Metall, Berlin, Brandenburg, Sachsen im IG Metall Haus, Berlin.

ARTWORK OF THE FUTURE

#Material4.0 - Gruppenausstellung - Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen in Kooperation mit Arbeiter*innen des Mercedes-Benz Werks, Sindelfingen.

KAP DER GUTEN HOFFNUNG

I SAVED THE ELEPHANTS

(on memory stick)

BEYOND THE BADGES

MANIFESTA 11

Zurich, Switzerland

Installation at Löwenbräu Kunst, Zürich

Mixed Media Installation

TASER-CHICKEN, ceramic, metal glaze, 38cm x 30cm x 10cm

TONFA-SNAKE, ceramic, metal glaze, 38cm x 30cm x 8cm

PC-HACKER, ceramic, metal glaze, 35cm x 30cm x 5c

"Weapon Treasure Box" 44 ceramic objects, metal glaze, polyresin dog

"COP DOG" polyresin, ceramic, metal glaze, steel screws

„Crime Scene“ screen print of 3D Scan film set locations, 120cm x 60cm

XTERMINATING BADGES


MANIFESTA 11
Zurich, Switzerland

Film produced and commissioned by Manifesta 11 
in collaboration with Cantonal Police, Zürich

Film HD, 29 min, color, german, eng. sub.

Schmitt´s template for „Xterminating Badges“ was Luis Buñuel‘s cinematic and surreal masterpiece „The Exterminating Angel“ from 1962. A group of rich and influential friends meet for an extravagant dinner party one evening and wake up the next morning in the same room, inexplicably incapable of leaving the villa. The macabre metaphor from  Franco-era Spain is not lost in present-day Zurich, where the police museum, bristling with confiscated weapons, is the claustrophobic setting for the drama. In recreating that Surrealist film, Schmitt made one change that, above all others, led to a remarkable result: all characters are played by police officers from the canton of Zurich. Schmitt’s interest in the police has to do with the delicate balance between freedom and security––when and why people give up one to gain the other.The police officers who took part in Schmitt’s method acting workshops can beseen, however, to enjoy the comic release from their professional personae. Schmitt, himself, also performs two characters: One is the Butler, who is serving the police officers and leading them to their subconcious paradise. The other character is the butler´s wealthy boss, who is the cops host. Master and servant in one person. Though law enforcement is perhaps the last thing some people would associate with absurdity, the scene where the characters mold clay into shapes combining their favorite tool or weapon with their favorite animal reveals just how symbolic the rules and iconography of law and order truly are––and how ripe they are for investigation.

Installation at Police Station of Cantonal Police, Zürich

HIGH-AZTECH POLICE

 Material Art Fair 2015, Mexico-City 
with helper Gallery, Brooklyn, USA.

-FOR YOUR PAIN AND PLEASURE-

THE FREE ART MEDITATION 

Audemars - Piguet and Welkunst Art-Salon at the Hotel "Das Stue", Berlin

PANOPTICONTHERA SUBOBSCURA

Marco Schmitt´s solo show at REH-transformer, Berlin, extends from film (Mexico, 2014) to an installation of ceramic objects.

"decoded panoctagon" 64 handglazed ceramic tiles

"encoded panoctagon" 64 handglazed ceramic tiles

PANOPTICONTHERA SUBOBSCURA
or the second coming of Tezcatlipoca

18min , HDCam, color

Austria / Germany / Mexico 2014

  The Sky over the Otomi Ceremonial Center at Temoaya in Mexico. The camera pans down to show a massive outdoor stone structure and the shaman Raul Trejo. An aerial shot reveals that the shaman is seated in center of a mosaic representation of the Ouroboros, the snake which bites its own tail, thus elevating itself from finite line to infinite circle. Through a spiritual ritual, Trejo calls a flying drone into presence. It arrives from the sun and .dives toward the Ouroboros

In a film loaded with spiritual, social and architectonic symbols, which reflect the syncretism of indigenous and high-tech cultures in contemporary Mexico, Schmitt constructs an allegory on the complex nature of authorship.

FRAGMENTS OF DIRECTION

Solo-Show, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart

During his research visit in New York City, Marco Schmitt was occupied with a specific question: How do institutions operate and to what extent do structures of administration and management represent art institutions?

To further explore this question, he visited and photographed the internal offices of some key figures within the context of the New York art world, such as Richard Armstrong, at the Guggenheim, Massimiliano Gioni, at the New Museum and RoseLee Goldberg, at the Performa office. His photographs focus on personal objects, fragments of design language and how these elements are or might be used to reveal how and where the directors work. As part of the performance program, Ich / I, Schmitt proposes to retrieve those visits within the setting of Stuttgart, where he will continue to develop his list. Combining the material from New York with new material from Stuttgart-based institutions, he aims to develop an installation on the first floor of Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, where the office and administration are located. Visitors are invited to take a tour with the artist in order to "read" the photographs together as a collective experience within the office context.

"Enter my office and have a look into my exhibition! Have a look into my office, and see my attitude…

Chair of Richard Armstrong, Guggenheim Museum, NYC

Desk of Massimiliano Gioni, New Museum, NYC

Office of RoseLee Goldberg, Performa, NYC

Installation at the office of Künstlerhaus Stuttgart

- L´ETAT, C´EST MOI -

GOING  TO „MADRE“ WITHOUT REACHING „MADRE“

Solo-show at Bikini Wax Gallery, Mexico City, 2013.

A SIGN ON THE ROAD SAID: TAKE US TO MADRE

an exhibition driven by Marco Schmitt, Brooklyn, New York, 2012

madre

helper

www.helperprojects.com

Inspired by the Doors song «Queen of the Highway» and «Break on thru to the other side. Marco Schmitt was driving an experimental group show. He put the paperwork of 48 artists in each one of 48 cardboard boxes and stacked all of them on top of eachother. He organized a pre-opening at Fort Tilden Parking Lot near Rockaway Beach, where he drove with a car full speed through the cardboard box sculpture. The boxes were crashed and the paperworks spread on the parking lot. He installed all smashed boxes, paperworks and a flatscreen showing the film, in which Schmitt was driving fast over all bridges of New York and crashing through the cardboard boxes.

INDEPENDENT INDEPENDENCE

Performance, Video, 8:51min, Mexico-City

Documentation of a 10 hour performance in the streets of Mexico-City. Schmitt was yelling 280 slogans: Viva la Desolación! Viva la Determinación! Viva la Detonación! Viva la Discriminación! Viva la Documentación! Viva la Domesticación! Viva la Dominación! Viva la Duración! Viva la Educación! Viva la Eyaculación! Viva la Emancipación! Viva la Menstruración!

VIVA LA LIBERACIÓN TRANSPARENTE! 

Video 5:10min, Mexico City, 2012

 Schmitt refers Sol Lewit´s work „Buried cube containing an object of importance but little value“ to „Flying cube containing an object of unimportance but big value.

.The white cube is fixed to the leg like a „Cube and chain“ similar to prisoners used to have in the past

THE END

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© 2020 all images and texts by Marco Schmitt