Whitegoods as art: Thomas Rentmeister
June 26th, 2012
With a few fridges and some baby cream, leading German installation artist Thomas Rentmeister brings his exhibition Objects.Food.Rooms to Australia.
Dozens of fridges smeared with baby cream piled in a corner of the room – what, you don’t get it?! Apparently some people, namely art buffs, do.
Rentmeister has been impressing the European art scene for a quarter of a century with his installations, using materials and objects that are most often forgotten.
Exhibiting in PICA in Perth the German told The West that for him, his art is sort of like a 3D painting.
“It is not about anything specific. It is about those colours, like a big abstract painting. The objects all have an association but how you see those things is changed in the chaos of the structure. It is like a geographical formation, like a mountain from this side, and from this side going down like a landslide,” Rentmeister told The West.
Mmm, now do you get it?
Whether you’re an art buff or an appliance freak like us and you find yourself in WA, head on down to PICA from 23 June to 12 August 2012 where the Meister will be exhibiting is stuff.
A look at the artist’s website reveals that fridges are his art appliance of choice.
Nearly 100 fridges in a corner, 2008
untitled, 2003
untitled, 2003
I love it!
Selling the things is an even more esoteric art !!